Yuval Castleman's family wants to recognize him as an IDF soldier. Family members of the man who was shot dead after neutralizing a terrorist at the scene of an attack in Jerusalem contacted the head of the commemoration department at the Ministry of Defense.
In a letter sent by Attorney Daniel Haklai and Attorney Amit Shelf on behalf of the Castleman family, it is stated that "they are the heroic act of Yuval and the fact that he was in fact during a long active reserve service"