Acting Major Yitzhar Hoffman, 36 years old from Ashhar, was killed in the battles in the northern Gaza Strip. Hoffman served as a platoon commander in the Sheldag unit, and is a graduate of the Or Torah Stone Neve Shmuel yeshiva. The ninth faller from the Yeshiva. Hoffman is the cousin of Finny Cohen, a Givat patrol officer who was killed in Khan Yunis in Doch in 2002.
Hoffman who fell in battle wrote about Finney Cohen in 2002, photo: from Facebook
Hoffman joins three other victims whose names were released this morning, Capt. Gavriel Shani, 28 years old from the settlement of Ali, Sergeant Major Yuval Nir, 43 years old from Kfar Etzion and Sergeant Major Netzer Simchi, 30 years old from Masad.
Resan” (res.) Netzer Simchi, Capt. (res.) Gabriel Shani, Sergeant Major (res.) Yuval Nir, photo: IDF spokesman
The friends of Netzer who fell in the battles in Gaza paid tribute to him: “Netzer, Netz, I can’t believe I’m writing about you in the past tense, it’s simply unimaginable and my heart refuses to believe. You brought light to every place you entered, all the time with a smile. Every time I met you between a mission and a convoy You always said goodbye and asked how things were, brother, and all the time you could hear the happiness and joy in your voice.”
Hanoch Daum wrote about Nir who fell in Gaza on his Facebook account: “It is a difficult evening for us in Gush Etzion, the Gush Etzion Council has now announced the death of Yuval Nir the 14th resident of Kfar Etzion who was killed in the battles in Gaza. Yuval and his wife Ila have five children: Alon, Shahar, Ofri, Yigal and Roy. He set out to defend the homeland which he loved already in Simcha Torah, and fell today on its guard. Of blessed memory”.
The head of the Binyamin Council, Israel Gantz, said goodbye to Capt. Gavriel Shani who fell in Gaza: “We received bitter news this evening about the death of a respected officer who was devoted to his family, his people and his country. The heart aches for such a precious loss. The whole of Binyamin shares in the family’s grief, which is the grief of all of us. We We are wrapping up the wife and the young children and we will continue to help them and accompany them with whatever is required.”
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