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On July 12, 2006 eight IDF soldiers were killed and two kidnapped, following an attack of the Hizbullah terror organization on the border with Lebanon. Hizbullah simultaneously launched Katyusha attacks against Israel. The IDF responded with Operation Change of Direction.
Since July 12, 40 Israeli civilians and 117 IDF soldiers have been killed.
July 12, 2006
- Killed in IDF patrol jeeps:
Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Eyal Benin, 22, of Beersheba
Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Shani Turgeman, 24, of Beit Shean
Sgt.-Maj. Wassim Nazal, 26, of Yanuah
- Tank crew hit by mine in Lebanon:
St.-Sgt. Alexei Kushnirski, 21, of Nes Ziona
St.-Sgt. Yaniv Bar-on, 20, of Maccabim
Sgt. Gadi Mosayev, 20, of Akko
Sgt. Shlomi Yirmiyahu, 20, of Rishon Lezion
- Killed trying to retrieve tank crew:
Sgt. Nimrod Cohen, 19, of Mitzpe Shalem
   
Eyal Benin Shani Turgeman Wassim Nazal Nimrod Cohen
   
Alexei Kushnirski Yaniv Bar-on Gadi Mosayev Shlomi Yirmiyahu
July 13, 2006
Two Israelis were killed by Katyusha rockets fired by Hizbullah
Monica Seidman (Lehrer), 40, of Nahariya
Nitzo Rubin, 33, of Safed
 
Monica Seidman Nitzo Rubin
(Lehrer)
July 14, 2006
Omer Pesachov, 7, of Nahariya and his grandmother Yehudit Itzkovitch, 58, of Moshav Meron were killed by a Katyusha rocket in Meron.
 
Omer Pesachov Yehudit Itzkovitch
4 soldiers were killed by a Hizbullah missile attack on an Israeli naval vessel off the coast of Lebanon.
Staff Sgt. Tal Amgar, 21, of Ashdod
Cpl. Shai Atias, 19, of Rishon Lezion
Sgt. Yaniv Hershkovitz, 21, of Haifa
First Sgt. Dov Steinshuss, 37,of Karmiel
   
Tal Amgar Shai Atias Yaniv Hershkovitz Dov Steinshuss
July 16, 2006
Eight employees of Israel Railways were killed in a direct hit by a Hizbullah rocket at the Haifa train depot:
Shmuel Ben Shimon, 41, of Yokneam Illit
Asael Damti, 39, of Kiryat Yam
Nissim Elharar, 43, of Kiryat Ata
David Feldman, 28, of Kiryat Yam
Rafi Hazan, 30, of Haifa
Dennis Lapidos, 24, of Kiryat Yam
Reuven Levy, 46, of Kiryat Ata
Shlomi Mansura, 35, of Nahariya
   
Shmuel Ben Asael Damti Nissim Elharar David Feldman
Shimon
   
Rafi Hazan Dennis Lapidos Reuven Levy Shlomi Mansura
July 18, 2006
Andrei Zelinksy, 36, of Nahariya was killed by a rocket on his way to a bomb shelter.
Andrei Zelinksy
Rabia Abed Taluzi (3) and his brother Mahmoud (7) were killed in a Katyusha rocket attacka on Nazareth.
 
Rabia Taluzi Mahmoud Taluzi |
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2 soldiers were killed in exchanges of fire between IDF and Hizbullah in south Lebanon, near Moshav Avivim.
St.-Sgt. Yonatan Hadasi, 21, of Kibbutz Merhavia
Sgt. Yotam Gilboa, 21, of Kibbutz Maoz Haim
 
Yonatan Hadasi Yotam Gilboa
July 20, 2006
5 soldiers were killed in exchanges of fire in the Lebanese village of Maroun al-Ras, near Avivim
Maj. Benjamin (Benji) Hillman, 27, of Maccabim Re'ut
St.-Sgt. Refanael Muskal, 21, of Mazkeret Batya
St.-Sgt. Nadav Baeloha, 21, of Karmiel
St.-Sgt. Liran Saadia, 21, of Kiryat Shmona
St.-Sgt. Yonatan (Sergei) Vlasyuk, 21, of Kibbutz Lahav
   
Benji Hillman Refanael Muskal Nadav Baeloha Liran Saadia
Yonatan (Sergei) Vlasyuk
Maj. Ran Yehoshua Kochva, 37, of Beit Hanania, was killed when two Air Force combat helicopters collided close to Ramot Naftali, south of Kiryat Shmona.
Ran Kochva
July 23, 2006
Shimon Glicklich, 60, of Haifa was killed while driving his car in Haifa.
Habib Isa Awad, 48, of Iblin, was killed while working in the carpentry shop in Kiryat Ata.
 
Shimon Glicklich Habib Isa Awad
July 24, 2006
2nd Lt. Lotan Slavin, 21, of Hatzeva was killed when an anti-tank missile hit his Merkava tank. St.-Sgt. Kobi Smileg, 20, of Rehovot was killed when another tank went over a powerful landmine.
 
Lotan Slavin Kobi Smileg
2 Pilots were killed when their Apache helicopter crashed north of Safed while assisting ground troops in Lebanon.
Col. Zvi Luft, 42, of Kibbutz Hogla
1st Lt. Tom Farkash, 23, of Caesarea
 
Zvi Luft Tom Farkash
July 25, 2006
Doua Abbas, 15, of Maghar was killed while watching TV when a rocket struck her home, located near the village mosque.
Doua Abbas
July 26, 2006
Eight soldiers from the Golani Brigade were killed in battle in Bint Jbeil:
Maj. Ro'i Klein, 31, of Eli
Lt. Amihai Merhavia, 24, of Eli
Lt. Alexander Shwartzman, 24, of Akko
Sgt. Shimon Adega, 21, of Kiryat Gat
St.-Sgt. Edan Cohen, 21, of Jaffa
St.-Sgt. Shimon Dahan, 20, of Ashdod
Cpl. Ohad Klausner, 20, of Bet Horon
Cpl. Assaf Namer, 27, of Kiryat Yam
   
Ro'i Klein Amihai Merhavia Alexander Shimon Adega
Shwartzman
   
Edan Cohen Shimon Dahan Ohad Klausner Assaf Namer
Lt. Yiftah Shreirer, 21, of Haifa was killed by an anti-tank missile near Maroun al-Ras.
Yiftah Shreirer
Aug 1, 2006
3 soldiers were killed in battles with Hizbullah in Aita a-Sha'ab in southern Lebanon.
Lt. Ilan Gabai, 21, of Kiryat Tivon
St.-Sgt. Yonatan Einhorn, 22, of Moshav Gizmo
St.-Sgt. Michael Levin, 21, of Jerusalem
  
Ilan Gabai Yonatan Einhorn Michael Levin
Aug 2, 2006
David Martin Lelchook, 52, of Kibbutz Sa'ar, north of Nahariya, was killed by a Katyusha rocket while riding his bike in the kibbutz.
David Lelchook
Sgt. Adi Cohen, 18, of Hadera was killed in battle with Hizbullah in Aita a-Sha'ab in southern Lebanon
Adi Cohen
Aug 3, 2006
Killed by Katyusha rockets in Acre:
Shimon Zribi, 44, and his daugher Mazal, 15, of Acre
Albert Ben-Abu, 41, of Acre
Arieh Tamam, 51, and his brother Tiran, 31, of Acre.
   
Shimon Zribi Mazal Zribi Arieh Tamam Tiran Tamam
Albert Ben-Abu
Killed by a Katyusha rocket near Ma'alot-Tarshiha: Three Israeli Arabs from Tarshiha:
Shanati Shanati, 18
Amir Naeem, 18
Muhammed Fa'ur, 17
  
Shanati Shanati Amir Naeem Muhammed Fa'ur
3 soldiers were killed when their Merkava tank was hit by an anti-tank missile in Rajamin in southern Lebanon.
Sgt. Itamar Zur, 19, of Be'er Tuvia
Sgt. Andrei Brudner, 18, of Rishon Lezion
Sgt. Alon Feintuch, 19, of Kiryat Haim
Cpl. Yonatan Sharabi, 19, of Petah Tikva was killed by anti-tank fire in Taibeh.
   
Itamar Zur Andrei Brudner Alon Feintuch Yonatan Sharabi
Aug 4, 2006
Manal Azzam, 27-year-old mother of two, was killed in the Arab Druze village of Maghar in the Galilee.
Manal Azzam
Bahaa Fayed Karim Mana, 35, and Muhammed Subhi Salim Mana, 24, were killed in the Israeli Arab town of Majdal Krum.
 
Bahaa Mana Muhammed Mana
St.-Sgt. Daniel Shiran, 20, of Haifa, and St.-Sgt. Omri Haim Almakayes-Yaakobovitch, 20, of Ramla of the Golani Brigade were killed overnight by an anti-tank missile in the south Lebanese village of Markabeh. Capt.(res.) Igor Rothstein, 34, of Moshav Poriah, a doctor who volunteered for reserve duty, was killed.
  
Daniel Shiran Omri Almakayes Igor Rothstein
Aug 5, 2006
Sgt. Or Shahar , 20, of Kibbutz Yad Mordechai, was killed by a mortar shell near the village of Nabi al-Awadi in the eastern sector of south Lebanon.
Or Shahar
Cpl.(res.) Kiril Kashdan, 26, of Haifa was killed when an anti-tank missile hit a building in the soutm Lebanese village of Aita a-Sha'ab.
Kiril Kashdan
Fadiya Juma'a, 58, and her daughters Samira, 30, and Sultana, 25, and were killed in the courtyard of their home in the Bedouin village of Arab al-
Aramshe near the border between Israel and Lebanon.
  
Fadiya Juma'a Sultana Juma'a Samira Juma'a
Aug 6, 2006
Twelve IDF reservists were killed by a Katyusha rocket near Kibbutz Kfar Giladi, north of Kiryat Shmona, as they were preparing to enter Lebanon.
Captain Eliyahu Elkariaf, 34, of Moshav Granot
CWO Yosef Karkash, 41, of Afula
Warr.Ofc. Shmuel Halfon, 41, of Bat Yam
St.-Sgt.Maj. Daniel Ben-David, 38, of Moshav Ahituv
St.-Sgt.Maj. Shlomo Buchris, 36, of Moshav Sde Yitzchak
Sgt.-Maj. Ziv Balali, 28, of Kfar Sava
Sgt.-Maj. Marian Berkowitz, 31, of Ashdod
Sgt.-Maj. Ro’i Yaish, 27, of Herzliya
St.-Sgt. Yehuda Greenfeld, 27, of Maale Michmas
St.-Sgt. Shaul Shai Michlowitz, 21, of Netanya
Sgt. Gregory Aharonov, 34, of Or Akiva
   
Eliyahu Elkariaf Yosef Karkash Shmuel Halfon Daniel Ben-David
   
Shlomo Buchris Ziv Balali Marian Berkowitz Yehuda Greenfeld
   
Shaul Michlowitz Gregory Aharonov Ro’i Yaish Mordechai Abutbul
Three people were killed when rockets struck at seven residential locations in Haifa. Two have been named: Hana Hamam, 62, and Labiba Mazawi, 67, of Haifa, and Roni Rubinsky, 30, of Kiryat Motzkin.
  
Hana Hamam Labiba Mazawi Roni Rubinsky
Aug 7, 2006
Paratrooper St.-Sgt. Moshe (Malko) Ambao, 22, of Lod was killed in fighting in Bint Jbeil. Maj.(res.) Yotam Lotan, 33, of Kibbutz Beit Hashita and St.-Sgt.(res.) Noam Meirson, 23, of Jerusalem from the armored corps were killed by an anti-tank missile that struck the tank's turret.
St.-Sgt. Philip Mosko, 21, of Maale Adumim, who served as a paramedic in the Paratrooper Brigade, was killed during exchanges of fire between IDF soldiers and Hizbullah in the village of Dibel, near Bint Jbeil.
   
Moshe (Malko) Yotam Lotan Noam Meirson Philip Mosko
Ambao
Aug 8, 2006
Two IDF reservists were killed in the south Lebanese village of Labouna before dawn.
St.-Sgt.(res.) Yesamu Yalau, 26, of Or Yehuda.
Capt.(res.) Gilad Balhasan, 28, of Karmiel
 
Gilad Balhasan Yesamu Yalau
Two paratroopers were killed in Bint Jbeil: St.-Sgt. Oren Lifschitz, 21, of Kibbutz Gazit, and St.-Sgt. Moran Cohen, 21, of Kibbutz Ashdot Yaakov.
 
Moran Cohen Oren Lifschitz
Aug 9, 2006
15 reserve soldiers were killed and 40 wounded in four different incidents in south Lebanon:
A paratrooper was killed and 10 wounded by friendly fire from an IDF tank in the village of A-Taibeh in the eastern sector of south Lebanon.
Nine paratroopers were killed and 11 wounded by anti-tank missiles fired on a house in the village of Debel, in the central sector.
Four reservists from an armored brigade were killed when their tank was hit by an anti-tank missile, in Ayta al-Shaab.
An infantryman was killed by a mortar near Marjayoun.
Capt.(res.) Gilad Stukelman, 26, of Moshav Tamrat
Capt.(res.) Yoni (Leon) Shmucher, 30, of Bet Nehemiah
Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Igor Kovalik, 26, of Upper Nazareth
Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Noam Goldman, 27, of Tel Aviv
Sgt.-Maj.(res.) David Shmidov, 25, of Jerusalem
St.-Sgt.(res.) Nir Cohen, 22, of Maccabim
St.-Sgt.(res.) Ben (Binyamin) Sela, 24, of Koranit
Maj.(res.) Natan Yahav, 36, of Kiryat Ono
Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Asher Reuven Novik, 36, of Kanaf
St.-Sgt. Adi Salim, 22, of Beit Hashmonai
Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Elad Dan, 25, of Kibbutz Eilot
Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Gilad Zusman, 26, of Eli
Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Idan Kobi, 26, of Eilat
Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Naor Kalo, 25, of Kibbutz Maagan Michael
Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Nimrod Segev, 28, of Ramat Gan
   
Gilad Stukelman Yoni Shmucher Igor Kovalik Noam Goldman
   
David Shmidov Nir Cohen Ben Sela Natan Yahav
   
Asher Novik Adi Salim Elad Dan Gilad Zusman
  
Idan Kobi Naor Kalo Nimrod Segev
Aug 10, 2006 Mariam Assadi, 26, and her son Fathi Ahmed Assadi, 5, were killed in a direct hit by a Katyusha rocket on their home in the Israeli Arab village of Dir el-Asad.
 
Mariam Assadi Fathi Ahmed Assadi
IDF reservist Sgt.-Maj. Alon Samooha, 35, of Hod Hasharon was killed when a missile struck his tank in the el-Khiam area in south Lebanon.
Maj.(res.) Nimrod Hillel, 32, of Rosh Ha'ayin was killed in Labouna.
Alon Samooha Nimrod Hillel
Aug 11, 2006
Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Aharon Yehezkel, 32, of Kfar Yedidya was killed in exchanges of fire with Hizbullah terrorists in the south Lebanese village of Rashef.
Aharon Yehezkel
Aug 12, 2006
19 IDF soldiers were killed in ground operations and 85 were injured.
Capt. Shai Bernstein, 24, of Beersheva
St.-Sgt. Tzahi Krips, 20, of Kibbutz Hama'apil
St.-Sgt. Itai Steinberger, 21, of Karmei Yosef
Sgt. Yosef Abitbol, 19, of Gan Ner
Sgt. Yonatan Ankonina, 21, of Netanya
Sgt. Yaniv Temerson, 21, of Tzipori
Cpl. Ya'ar Ben Giat, 19, of Nahsholim
Cpl. Tomer Amar, 19, of Julis
St.-Sgt. Amsa (Ami) Meshulami, 20, of Ofra
Sgt. Yoan Zarbiv, 22, of Tel Aviv
Capt. Benaya Rein, 27, of Karnei Shomron
St.-Sgt. Adam Goren, 21, of Kibbutz Ma'abarot
Sgt. Alexander Bonimovitch, 19, of Netanya
St.-Sgt. Oz Zemah, 20, of Maccabim-Reut
Sgt. Haran Lev, 20, of Kibbutz Ma'ayan Barukh
Sgt. Dan Breuer, 19, of Beit Hillel
Cpl. Yinon Nissan, 19, of Ma'ale Adumim
St.-Sgt. Ido Grabovsky, 20, of Rosh Ha'ayin
Five aircrew members are missing and assumed to be dead, after their helicopter was shot down by Hizbullah:
Maj. Sami Ben-Naim, 39, of Rehovot
Maj.(res) Nissan Shalev, 36, of Kibbutz Evron
Capt. Daniel Gomez, 25, of Nehalim
Warr.Ofc.(res.) Ron Mashiah, 33, of Gedera
Sgt.-Maj. Keren Tendler, 26, of Rehovot
   
Shai Bernstein Tzahi Krips Itai Steinberger Yosef Abitbol
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Yaniv Temerson |
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Tomer Amar |    
Yinon Nissan Amsa (Ami) Meshulami Yoan Zarbiv Benaya Rein
   
Adam Goren Alex Bonimovitch Oz Zemah Haran Lev
  
Dan Breuer Ido Grabovsky Uri Grossman
   
Ron Mashiah Keren Tendler Sami Ben-Naim Nissan Shalev
Daniel Gomez
Aug 13, 2006
Mahdi Hayat, 84, of Moshav Ya'ara was killed by a direct hit of a Katyusha rocket.
Mahdi Hayat
Nine IDF soldiers were killed in fighting in south Lebanon.
Lt.(res.) Eliel Ben Yehuda, 24, of Kfar Tavor
Lt.(res.) Zur Zarhi, 27, of Moshav Nahalal
Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Guy Hason, 24, of Moshav Na'ama
St.-Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Amitai Yaron, 44, of Zichron Ya'akov
St.-Sgt. Peter Ohotsky, 23, of Lod
St.-Sgt.(res.) Yaniv Shainbrum, 24, of Mei Ami
St.-Sgt.(res.) David Amar, 24, of Kiryat Shmona
St.-Sgt.(res.) Elad Shlomo Ram, 31, of Haifa
St.-Sgt. Evgeny Timofeev, 20, of Rishon Lezion
   
Eliel Ben Yehuda Guy Hason Zur Zarhi Yaniv Shainbrum
   
David Amar Amitai Yaron Peter Ochotzky Elad Ram
Evgeny Timofeev
Aug 29, 2007
After spending over a year fighting for his life in a Haifa hospital, Hamoudi (Don) Salum finally succumbed to the critical wounds he sustained during Hizbullah rocket attack.
Hamoudi (Don) Salum
Aug 12, 2007
Two years and four days after having been attacked and abducted by Hizbullah on the Israeli side of the Lebanese border, the bodies of IDF soldiers Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev were returned home
 
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