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Tuesday, May 5, 2020
MAG orders probe into Maglan soldier seriously injured in 2018 training exercise
The Military Advocate General has ordered the launch of an investigation into the serious injury sustained by the Maglan reconnaissance unit’s Corporal Eli Hayut during a training exercise in August 2018, the army announces.
Hayut was seriously injured during a training exercise while jumping from a moving vehicle into a thorn bush, the army said at the time. He injured his back after landing on a rock hidden under the thorns, and underwent surgery.