Yair fell in Gaza days before his release from the reserves: "I was waiting so much for his hug" - voila! news. Yair Cohen, 30 years old from Ramat Gan, got married two weeks before Black Sabbath.

His widow, Ma'ayan, told Walla: "We knew on the second date that this was it. Within two weeks he told me he loved me," she said. "He didn't want to worry me. He lived for others - and died for them"