He was killed yesterday afternoon when an Arab-placed bomb exploded as he was engaged engineering work the Philadelphi Route, along the Israeli-Egyptian border.
Elmaliach was operating a road-widening vehicle when he discovered the opening of an arms-smuggling tunnel. He alerted the Tunnels Unit, but the bomb went off as he was waiting for the forces to arrive. The army is now investigating whether the terrorists were scouting the site from Egypt and set off the bomb by remote-control. Hamas claimed responsibility for the killing.
Moshe Elmaliach, father of three children, re-enlisted in the IDF ten years ago, and served as Engineering Corps supervisor of building new outposts in Gaza. The well-known wall that buffered between the local IDF outposts and the city of Rafiach, from where terrorists often shoot, was built under his command. Elmaliach received a certificate of appreciation in the President's Home for his work in Gaza.
Palestinian terrorists fired a Kassam rocket, for the first time in several days, towards the city of Sderot, where it landed harmlessly in an open area. Finance Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was visiting Sderot at the time.
Elmaliach was operating a road-widening vehicle when he discovered the opening of an arms-smuggling tunnel. He alerted the Tunnels Unit, but the bomb went off as he was waiting for the forces to arrive. The army is now investigating whether the terrorists were scouting the site from Egypt and set off the bomb by remote-control. Hamas claimed responsibility for the killing.
Moshe Elmaliach, father of three children, re-enlisted in the IDF ten years ago, and served as Engineering Corps supervisor of building new outposts in Gaza. The well-known wall that buffered between the local IDF outposts and the city of Rafiach, from where terrorists often shoot, was built under his command. Elmaliach received a certificate of appreciation in the President's Home for his work in Gaza.
Palestinian terrorists fired a Kassam rocket, for the first time in several days, towards the city of Sderot, where it landed harmlessly in an open area. Finance Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was visiting Sderot at the time.