Master Sergeant (Res.) Valeri Chefonov was critically injured by a UAV attack in the north and died of his wounds. His funeral will take place on Friday at the military cemetery in Netanya.
Anat Meir lost her husband Major (res.) David Meir on October 7th during a heroic battle in Kibbutz Be'eri. 'This year, I say thanks for things I never imagined I'd say thanks for.'
Sergeant First Class Tal Lahat, 21, from Kfar Saba fell during combat in the central Gaza Strip. He served in the Maglan Unit, the Commando Brigade.
Gazaa, the brother of Maj. Jalaa Ibrahem who fell in battle in Gaza, shared how their grandfather fell in battle as well and how all the men in his family are in the service of the country.
Major Ibrahem, 25 from Sajur, was a Company Commander in the 601st Engineering Battalion, 401st Brigade.
Staff Sergeant Eyal Mimran, 20, from Ness Ziona, a soldier from the 101st Battalion, the Paratroopers Brigade, fell during combat in northern Gaza.
Major Galea, 38, served as a Deputy Company Commander in the 8679th Unit, and was killed in a Hezbollah rocket attack.
Smadar Lugasi eulogized her son Elay, who fell in battle in Gaza: 'How can I flourish without you, my only son? You were everything to me. You loved and cared for me so much.'
Nahal Brigade soldier Ro'i Hizmi, severely injured in Rafah, comforts fallen comrade's bereaved parents and recites Hagomel blessing in their home. Watch.
Two soldiers from the Givati Brigade were seriously injured in the same incident and evacuated for medical treatment at a hospital.
Kiryat Shmona Mayor Avichai Stern says city has 'lost one of its finest sons and heroes today.' Elay was wounded at the beginning of the war and returned to active duty when he recovered.
Minister of Defense, Yoav Gallant, has approved the Public Council for the Commemoration of Soldiers’ recommendation to add the words ‘May God avenge his blood’ on tombstones of fallen soldiers, at their families’ request.
Rabbi Zion Hadad eulogizes his son Sergeant Ori Itzchak, a student of the Hesder Yeshiva in Itamar, recalls their conversation the day before he fell: You sounded so great, you said 'everything is fine dad, thank God'. You were a special child, sweeter than honey.
Soldier killed in massive IED explosion in Nur Shams near Tulkarm.
Marcy Tatelbaum spoke to Arutz Sheva about her son SFC (res.) Yakir, his decision to return to the battlefield, and the dreaded moments she learned he was killed in battle and shares her message: 'Everybody has to do their part.'
9 soldiers from the Itamar Yeshiva were wounded in a single incident in Gaza today.
Meir, brother of fallen soldier Sergeant First Class (res.) Yakir Shmuel Tatelbaum, tells Arutz Sheva - Israel National News about the moment the family received the bitter news, and the difficulty coping with it.
Sergeant First Class (res.) Yakir Shmuel Tatelbaum was killed in action in Gaza over Shabbat. At the conclusion of his funeral, the crowd burst out singing, 'Ani Ma'amin.' Watch.
Yakir was killed in action over Shabbat during an engagement in northern Gaza.
Staff Sergeant Yair Avitan was a soldier from the 890th Battalion of the Paratroopers Brigade and Sergeant First Class (Res.) Yakir Shmuel Tatelbaum was a soldier from the 77th Battalion of the 7th Brigade.
Sergeant Eyal Shynes, 19, from Kibbutz Afik fell in battle in southern Gaza. His family was notified.
What Benjamin Netanyahu and I heard in the mourners’ tent after my son’s aide, Saadia Dery, was killed in Gaza.
Captain Alon Sacgiu, 22 years old from Hadera, served in the Kfir Brigade and fell during a military operation in Jenin.
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant instructed the Public Council for the Commemoration of Soldiers to reexamine the request of the Yudkin family to write 'May G-d avenge his blood' on their son's grave.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu paid a condolence visit to the family of the fallen soldier SFC (Res.) Saadia Yaakov Dery in the Binyamin Region town of Eli.
Sergeant Major (SGM) Mohammad El Atrash, 39, a soldier in the Bedouin Trackers Unit in the Northern Brigade of the Gaza Division, was killed on October 7 and his body is being held hostage by a terrorist organization.
Sergeant First Class (Res.) Omer Smadga began his journey in MDA as a youth volunteer in Netanya in 2015 and over the years saved many lives during his shifts in ambulances.
Malkia Gross, a student at the Or Etzion Yeshiva, was the eighth Hesder student to fall in battle in the past week: 'We cry for the loss of Malkia, who lived a short life but full of meaning and significance.'
Sergeant First Class (Res.), Malkia Gross, 25, fell in battle in southern Gaza.
Video shows SFC Saadia Yaakov Dery, who was killed in battle on Thursday, singing with Tzfat Chief Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu and Rabbi Eitan Shnerb, who lost his daughter Rina in a terror attack in 2019.
Fallen soldier was photographed wearing a talit during morning prayers and tefillin hours before he and another soldier were killed in a mortar attack.
Sergeant First Class (Res.) Omer Smadga and Sergeant First Class (Res.) Saadia Yaakov Dery fell in central Gaza. Three reservists were severely wounded.
Only 30 meters separate the homes of the parents of Elon Waiss and Shalom Menachem, who were both killed this week in Gaza. Local council head: ‘Our hearts are overflowing with sadness.’
During the incident in which Staff Sergeant Tzur Abraham fell, a combat officer who serves as a field investigator in Unit 504 was severely wounded.
Sergeant Yair Roitman, a combat soldier in training in the Givat patrol, died of his wounds on Saturday, after being seriously injured early last week in a battle in southern Gaza.
Waiss, 49, from Psagot, a combat soldier in the 129th Battalion of the 8th Brigade, was killed in battle in the northern Gaza Strip.
Yedidya Waiss, before his father Eilon’s funeral: ‘With God's help we will win this war and the entire nation of Israel will know no more sorrow. We will learn to see the good.’
Yesterday, 8 soldiers were killed in an APC explosion in Rafah.
The IDF Spokesperson's Unit clears for publication of the names of five soldiers who were killed in the explosion of an APC in Rafah. In addition, two reservists were killed in northern Gaza.
Combat engineer Shalom Menachem of Beit El, age 21, was killed Saturday in an APC disaster that left a total of eight soldiers dead.
Sergeant Itai Amar, 19 years old from Kokhav Ya'ir-Tzur Yigal, fell in battle in southern Gaza.
Yair Roitman was critically injured in Rafah earlier this week. After an extended battle for his life, the hospital was forced to declare Yair's death.
'We are fighting to ensure our existence and our future; we are fighting to bring back our hostages,' Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says.
Captain Wassem Mahmoud commanded the vehicle which was destroyed in an explosion in Rafah, and fell together with his soldiers.
Eight IDF soldiers killed after explosion, believed caused by improvised device, sets their APC on fire.
In the Jordan Valley, students from the Kedma Mechora youth village dedicate 'Mitzpe Yoni' in honor of fallen IDF soldier Yehonatan Yosef Brand.
Members of the Bnei Akiva branch in Sderot raised 200,000 shekels and dedicated a Torah scroll in memory of the branch's graduate who fell in battle in Be'eri on October 7.
Eliran Mizrahi, a father of four and D-9 bulldozer operator in the IDF reserves who served for 78 days in the Gaza Strip, committed suicide last week after suffering from post-trauma.
Family of Sergeant Almog Shalom, who fell with three other soldiers in operational activity in Rafah, donated his organs to save lives.
'He trained to fight at the very front of the war, and that is exactly where he ended up.'
Tal Pshebilski Shaulov, Eitan Karlsbrun, Almog Shalom, and Yair Levin fell in battle in Rafah.
Yair Levin, a soldier from Givat Harel who served in the Givati Brigade, killed during operational activity in Gaza.
Shani, of blessed memory, was a squad commander in the 6646 patrol battalion of the Shualei Marom Formation (646). He fell in battle on January 30th in the southern Gaza Strip at the age of 28.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks about the heroic operation which led to the rescue of four hostages, after meeting the hostages and their families at Sheba Medical Center.
Yamam Squad Commander Chief Inspector Arnon Zamora led the force that rescued four hostages from Gaza. He was injured in the battle and later died of his wounds.
IDF reservist Refael Kauders, 39, who was killed in Wednesday's UAV attack on a soccer field in the town of Hurfeish, left behind a wife and four children.
Warrant officer Zeed Mazarib, a 34-year-old tracker and a married father of two, fell in battle in southern Gaza.
IDF reservist Refael Kauders, 39, fought in the Alon Brigade and fell in battle in northern Israel.
The legacy of a fallen soldier at Yeshivat Har Etzion L'Tzeirim.
Adar Gavriel, 24, from Caesarea, fell in battle in the northern Gaza Strip. Yehonatan Elias, 20, from Jerusalem, fell in battle in the southern Gaza Strip. One soldier was seriously injured.
