Staff Sergeant Max Steinberg
Staff Sergeant Max Steinberg served in the Golani Brigade. He died in action in Gaza in Sunday, July 20. Steinberg was a lone soldier from Los Angeles; he did not have Israeli citizenship and was volunteering in the IDF. The consul general of Israel in Los Angeles, David Siegel, was quoted in the Los Angeles Daily News as saying “Max was a real hero, a real hero of his people, of our country.” Thirty-thousand people came to his funeral in Jerusalem at Mount Herzl, the military cemetery in Jerusalem. In Israel, Steinberg lived in Beersheba. He was 24 years old.