Sergeant Dor Dery
Sgt. Dor Dery was a soldier in a squad commander course. Dery was killed when terrorists infiltrated Israel from Gaza through a tunnel and attempted to execute an attack on July 28. Five soldiers were killed in the attack. Just before being deployed to the field in mid July, he wrote the following to his brother Avichai: “I was drafted for this, not for anything else. Don’t tell our parents. Tell them that I’m in training.” He was the youngest child in a family of four siblings. Dery was from Jerusalem. He was 18 years old.