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Thursday, April 4, 2024
Lidor Levy, 34, dies of wounds from Gan Yavne terror stabbing attack
Renee Ghert-Zand is the health reporter and a feature writer for The Times of Israel.
Lidor Levy, a victim of the terror attack in Gan Yavne on Sunday, died of his wounds at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv this morning.
Levy, a computer engineer, was 34. He leaves behind a pregnant wife, a one-and-a-half-year-old daughter, parents, and a brother and sister.
Levy was seriously wounded on Sunday when the terrorist went on a stabbing spree at the local mall. Another man was also seriously injured and a teenager was moderately injured. All three were rushed to Assuta Medical Center in Ashdod, with Levy being later transferred to Ichilov for neurosurgery for a penetrative head injury.
The attacker, a 19-year-old Palestinian from Dura in the southern West Bank, was shot dead by security officers who responded to the scene.
Levy was seriously wounded in 2009 during his service with the IDF Combat Engineering Corps in Gaza. Despite his subsequent exemption from reserve military duty, he tried to get the army to call him up during the current war.
“Lidor was an exemplary father, spouse, brother and son. He was a person full of love, nobleness, and generosity…We are left with a huge hole in our hearts. We will continue to live our lives according to the values he inculcated in us as a way of memorializing him,” his family said in a statement issued by the hospital.
