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Monday, July 23, 2018
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Monday, July 23, 2018
Rivlin pays condolence visit to family of IDF soldier killed on Gaza border
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GooglePresident Reuven Rivlin pays a condolence visit to the family IDF Staff Sgt. Aviv Levi, who was killed by Palestinian sniper fire on the Gaza border on Friday.
“Your son protected all of us, our security is based on these young soldiers who bear the burden of protecting our country,” he tells the Levi family in their Petah Tikva home.
“It’s because of them that we can develop our country. It’s both our strength and our pain,” he says.
Levi, a 21-year-old infantry soldier in the Givati Brigade, was laid to rest in his hometown yesterday afternoon. He was the first IDF fatality on the Gaza front since Operation Protective Edge in 2014.
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