A soldier was found dead yesterday in southern Israel in what is being investigated as an apparent suicide, the military says, bringing the total number of IDF fatalities in 2025 to 152.
According to the IDF, Military Police have opened an investigation into the death. The findings of the probe will be transferred to the Military Advocate General’s Corps upon its completion, the army adds.
According to the army, 22 cases this year are currently under investigation or were previously examined on suspicion of suicide, including 12 conscripts, one career service soldier and nine reservists.
The IDF also clarifies that Sgt. Yosef Haim Tzvi Serlin, a trainee in the Military Intelligence Directorate’s Unit 504, who died after being hurt during a training exercise, will be counted among training accident fatalities rather than deaths from illness. As a result, 14 soldiers are now listed as having died from illness in 2025, while one death is categorized as a training accident.
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