Corporal Meidan Maymon Biton
Corporal Meidan Maymon Biton was a soldier in the 7th Armored Brigade. Biton was killed on July 28 along with three other soldiers by mortar fire from Gaza. Biton was from Netivot, and was the second of two soldiers from that city to die during the conflict with Gaza. Haaretz quoted the mayor of Netivot, Yehiel Zohar: “In our war for our home, the city of Netivot has paid the unbearably high price of two of its finest sons.” Biton was 20 years old.