JERUSALEM (JNS) – In an interview with reporters on Tuesday, the girlfriend of an Israel Defense Forces’ soldier killed during an arrest operation near Jenin when a resident threw a cinder block at his head, recalled his love for his country and demanded that the government avenge the death of her boyfriend, who she said was “not killed, he was murdered”.
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Sobbing while speaking to reporters, Osher Khnum, the girlfriend of 21-year-old Amit Ben-Yigal, cried that he “loved his country so much.”
“He told me on Memorial Day that if he has to die, he wants to die for his country,” she said.
“He was very excited to go out on the operation yesterday; he said it was for the sake of the country,” she said, referring to the mission Ben-Yigal was sent on in order to arrest terror operatives on the Palestinian Authority-controlled town of Yabad in Israel’s north.
“But he didn’t die. He was murdered,” she cried. “They murdered him.”
Clutching a cup of water, Osher called for vengeance. “They should revenge him; they should do something,” she said.
She broke down as she recalled that he had promised to return to see her at the end of next week, and that in the meantime, he would take care of himself.
According to Osher, Ben-Yigal had just two months left in his service as an elite Golani Brigade soldier.
His father, Baruch Ben-Yigal, told Kan news on Tuesday that Amit, his only child (and the eldest of his mother’s three children), broke down in tears after a trip to Poland to visit the Nazi concentration camps with his school, and told his father that he realized the importance of Israel on his trip and wanted to go into a fighting unit.
Though IDF service is compulsory in Israel, families with just one child are not obligated to send their child to a fighting unit in order to prevent such a tragic loss. However, children who want to serve in combat units may do so if their parents agree to sign a waiver.
According to Baruch, he had reluctance to sign the waiver, but Amit insisted that “we have no other country” and convinced his father to support his decision.
Video recordings of the interviewers showed them wiping tears as the father, a schoolteacher who said he taught love of the land and State of Israel in his classes, said he was “broken, destroyed” by Amit’s death.
“He fought so hard to be there—all he talked about was the Golani Brigade, the Golani Brigade,” said Khnum. “He was so proud of his country, to sacrifice himself for the nation.”
“He had a pure heart,” she added. “And if it’s for the country, [I know] he is so proud of himself, for sure.”
Attempting to smile, she said, “We will always remember him, always.”
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“But he didn’t die. He was murdered,” she cried. “They murdered him.”
Clutching a cup of water, Osher called for vengeance. “They should revenge him; they should do something,” she said.
She broke down as she recalled that he had promised to return to see her at the end of next week, and that in the meantime, he would take care of himself.
According to Osher, Ben-Yigal had just two months left in his service as an elite Golani Brigade soldier.
His father, Baruch Ben-Yigal, told Kan news on Tuesday that Amit, his only child (and the eldest of his mother’s three children), broke down in tears after a trip to Poland to visit the Nazi concentration camps with his school, and told his father that he realized the importance of Israel on his trip and wanted to go into a fighting unit.
Though IDF service is compulsory in Israel, families with just one child are not obligated to send their child to a fighting unit in order to prevent such a tragic loss. However, children who want to serve in combat units may do so if their parents agree to sign a waiver.
According to Baruch, he had reluctance to sign the waiver, but Amit insisted that “we have no other country” and convinced his father to support his decision.
Video recordings of the interviewers showed them wiping tears as the father, a schoolteacher who said he taught love of the land and State of Israel in his classes, said he was “broken, destroyed” by Amit’s death.
“He fought so hard to be there—all he talked about was the Golani Brigade, the Golani Brigade,” said Khnum. “He was so proud of his country, to sacrifice himself for the nation.”
“He had a pure heart,” she added. “And if it’s for the country, [I know] he is so proud of himself, for sure.”
Attempting to smile, she said, “We will always remember him, always.”
BD”E, ZATZAL !
Heartbreaking. Hashem Yinkom Domo.
HY”D
This father had only one child and sent him to defend our our people. The frumers sit on their tuchas and don’t lift a finger to defend the country – does this make any sense? Everyone that lives there must serve, Period
Heartbreaking!
Oy Hashem! Ad masai!!!! BDE!
Justice or revenge? Better the former than the latter.
You are using his death nebuch as a way to bring machlokes, that is the last thing good for his neshama now. Say something good in his honor, shame on you
BD”H. Hy”d. Ad Mosai, Almighty God, Ahd Mosai!!!? Moishiach NOW!
No normal Jew should join this army run by fat cat politicians who don’t care about their own soldiers lives. They only look to act like goyim. Chareidim and many chilonim became smart and don’t join. A soldier can’t defend himself against a terrorist unless he fires a warning shot first and if he does he ends up in prison. All they care is turning society into a sodomit kingdom with tattoos and gay parades.
BPer, time to visit a shrink with a mask. You can’t stop fantasizing about gays and tattoos. Your chareidi askans in NYJ told us to vote for Democrats who push exactly that.
Give the whole story.
I’m opposed to these democRATic askonim operatives. I put them on the same boat as the fat cat Israeli politicians who only care to stay in power and lick the goyim of Europe. Yes the democRATic operatives did harass rabbonim to vote Hillary. That’s true. But the normal people in all frum areas including Boro park voted Trump.
Just to add
My inside sources tell me that the democRATic operatives in heimisha communities are very upset. First the majority of religious Jews voted Trump and will even more in coming election but they have lost their power because they can’t control the masses doing minyanim and other functions. The governor and mayor all democRATs are fuming. They know that these communities will vote ninety per cent for Trump.
This father, so sadly, allowed his only son to join the Zionist army to defend Zionism and the State of Israel, the Nationalist entity, not to defend any people. Read the words in the article: he was willing to, and unfortunately did, give up his life because “we have no other country”, etc.
This is sick. Zionist propaganda and lies convinced this young man to give up his life for their idolatry. There are many Israelis living happily all over the world outside of Israel. And, if anything, being Israeli is a liability to them, not an asset. That’s besides for the millions of non-Israeli Jews.
As even Rabbi YB Soloveitchik admitted:
1. The State of Israel (and Zionism) causes hatred of Jews, especially from the Arabs, as the world, unfortunately, believes the Zionist lies that Zionists fraudulently claim to represent world Jewry and
2. If our government (USA) and others were to withdraw their support of the Zionists, then the Zionists would be toast, including their army.
Chabad even has houses all over the world! How on Earth could anyone (not brainwashed by Zionist propaganda) seriously believe that the Zionists are the saviors of the Jewish people when plain facts and logic indicate the exact opposite?
Hashem has always provided us a place to reside in galus (because the whole point is for us to be a light unto the nations, in whichever country/ies that may be), and, B”H, there are many, many, places now for Jews to live, despite the Zionists lies and identity theft of the Jewish people and the resultant hatred of Jews the Zionists caused and continue to cause, CH”V.
The Zionists don’t bother denying (because they can’t) that Israel is the most dangerous “Jewish” place in the world for a Jew. They simply baldly lie that there is a binary choice between having Israel and Auschwitz. In fact, Jews worldwide would have been and would always be much better off had Zionism never started.
In WW II, of course, the Zionists lobbied governments to close their gates to Jews so that, Zionist or not, the Jews’ only choice would be would to either go to Palestine (which the British forbade thanks to the Zionists picking fights with the Arabs in Palestine for decades by then, including the Zionists causing the Chevron Pogrom) or for Hitler to slaughter.
The Zionists, during WW II, as even the Zionists can’t hide anymore, refused to rescue Jews due to their placing priority of Zionism above all else. Moreover, they were pleased that non-Zionist Jews were being murdered by the Nazis because, as one Zionist disgustingly put it, “Rak biDam tihye lanu haaretz”.
While the Zionists have brainwashed (literally) our Israeli brethren into believing their idolatrous lies and foolishness, so it is difficult to get them to believe otherwise. But when will all non-Israeli Jews stop believing in this idol so at least they can stop sending sacrifices to the Zionist Molech?
Every issue on this site ends up with the same stupid arguments from the same stupid people.
They seem to be on a mental merry-go-round and can’t seem to get off it.
Chativat Hagolani is a very dangerous army unit. And you have to ask signature from parents of single kids to go. Please do not sign permission for an only son to be part of the Golani. It has nothing to do with charedi or not. And I know a charedi in the Golani. So obviously you chose to serve your t****s in a simple plain unit and not Golani so shame on you too.
BDE! Chayalei Hatzavah!!
Mosad murdered him no signs in the medical report of rock injuries go check it maybe im lying