Staff Sergeant Idan Cohen
“Idan,” recalled a neighbor, ”was a modest person, who wanted very much to join Golani." Another neighbor said, “He was the most amazing boy you could describe – a good person who was about to complete his military service, and his entire future was in front of him.” Eran Agison, a friend of Idan’s, spoke about their last conversation: “A second before he entered Lebanon, he told me, ‘I’m going in, what will I tell my mother? I’ll tell her I’m in training.’ I asked him if he was afraid, and he told me, ‘There’s no one here that is not afraid, but I must do this.’”
Idan was killed along with 7 other soldiers on July 26, 2006 when his IDF battalion was ambushed during fierce fighting in the town of Bint J’beil, a Hizbullah stronghold in southeast Lebanon. He was 21 years old.
Idan was killed along with 7 other soldiers on July 26, 2006 when his IDF battalion was ambushed during fierce fighting in the town of Bint J’beil, a Hizbullah stronghold in southeast Lebanon. He was 21 years old.