Staff SergeanT Omer Chai
Staff Sgt. Omer Chai was a combat soldier in Maglan, an elite IDF unit. He was killed along with two other soldiers in a booby-trapped building thought to be a UNRWA health clinic on July 30. The soldiers had entered in order to destroy an underground tunnel that started from inside the clinic. A childhood friend said that Omer was “full of faith. One who always stuck to the goal until the very end.” Chai was from Savion. He was 21 years old.