Fallen soldiers

'Noble, extraordinary act': Seven-year-old receives life-saving transplant from fallen IDF soldier

After Shahar Gamla was killed in Lebanon, his family’s decision to donate his organs helped save 7-year-old Bel Finkelstein’s life.

Bel Finkelstein with the medical team.
Yehuda Katz.

After 44 years: IDF finds, returns remains of Yehuda Katz, who went missing in First Lebanon War

Shlomo Haimson in an undated picture.

IDF identifies remains of soldier killed in Cyprus, buried as unknown in Haifa since 1948

Israeli soldiers visit at a viewpoint overlooking southern Lebanon, August 5, 2026.

IDF expands probe into abnormally strong explosion that killed two reservists in Lebanon


Four soldiers killed, two wounded while fighting in southern Lebanon, IDF confirms

The military shared the names of the fallen soldiers: Captain Noam Madmoni, Staff Sergeant Ben Cohen, Staff Sergeant Maxsim Entis, and Staff Sergeant Gilad Harel.

Staff Sergeant Maxsim Entis, Captain Noam Madmoni, Staff Sergeant Ben Cohen, Staff Sergeant Gilad Harel.

Israeli mothers mourn together after their sons survived the battlefield but not their wounds

The OneFamily program draws more than a dozen women, ranging from their early 40s to late 70s, all bereaved mothers of soldiers, except one whose son was killed at the Nova music festival.

Hazel Brief, at left, and Tali Drori pose together at a OneFamily retreat in early 2026.

IDF announces death of Sgt. Liran Ben Zion, 19, killed in southern Lebanon

Ben Zion’s family has been informed of his death.

Fallen IDF soldier, Sgt. Liran Ben Zion, 19, who fell during combat in southern Lebanon, March 30.

US-born IDF soldier killed while fighting in Lebanon, military announces

Katz, 22, was born in New Haven, Connecticut, United States, and was killed during an attack where three other soldiers were moderately wounded.

Sergeant Moshe Yitzhak Hacohen Katz, 22.

IDF Sgt. Aviad Elchanan Volansky killed in southern Lebanon by Hezbollah anti-tank missile

Earlier on Thursday, an anti-tank missile was fired towards a group of Golani Brigade soldiers operating near the Litani River in southern Lebanon, injuring four and killing one.

 Sgt. Aviad Elchanan Wolansky, 21

Israeli soldier killed in gunfight with Hezbollah terrorists in southern Lebanon, IDF says

Golani Brigade's St.-Sgt. Ori Greenberg, 21, killed while operating in southern Lebanon • Another soldier injured in Hezbollah gunfight

St.-Sgt. Ori Greenberg, 21.

The war returns. The grief never left

When war returns, families of fallen soldiers relive a loss that never truly left them. And the least we can do is make sure they do not face it alone.

 AVIGAYIL, THE WIDOW, holds the baby at the brit.

St.-Sgt. Or Demry killed in Lebanon combat, IDF confirms

According to the IDF, the ambushed soldiers were acting in a forward defensive capacity to keep any potential fighting away from northern Israeli residents.

St.-Sgt Or Demry

Two IDF soldiers killed by Hezbollah ambush in southern Lebanon

One of the soldiers, M.-Sgt. Maher Khatar, aged 38 from Majdal Shams, is the first Druze soldier to fall in Operation Roaring Lion, the head of Israel's Druze community said.

Israeli military vehicles and tanks are seen along the border with Lebanon, March 7, 2026

Herzog vows Israel will never stop searching for Ron Arad at missing soldiers memorial

Speaking at the ceremony, Herzog quoted Russian-Israeli poet Nathan Alterman’s “The Third,” an emotional poem about a mother whose son’s body was lost.

President Isaac Herzog hosts bereaved families in the President's Residence, Jerusalem, February 15, 2026; illustrative.