first lieutenant eliel ben yehuda
Esther Ben-Yehuda sat shiva in 1982 for her brother, Yossi Oliel, who was a soldier in the Golani brigade and was killed in a battle near Beaufort castle in southern Lebanon. During the shiva period, Esther gave birth to a son and named him Eliel, after her brother. The local council head of Kfar Tavor, said that, “When he was born, they named him Eliel, rather than Yossi, because they wanted to fool the Angel of Death.” But Eliel fell in battle close to the spot where his uncle had been killed just before he was born. When he was inducted into the IDF, he joined the same unit in Golani where his uncle had served, and became the deputy battalion commander in the commando unit. Eliel was killed by anti-tank missiles in the Aita al-Shaab region of Lebanon on August 13, 2006. He was 24 years old.