Captain OMRI Tal
Capt. Omri Tal was a soldier in the Barak Armored Brigade. He was killed near the Gaza border by mortar fire on July 31. His mother, Esti, wrote of her son: “There are not a lot of other people like [him], and Omri left us. Omri loved this country, and the country didn’t succeed in embracing him in return.” Tal was from Yehud. He was 22 years old.