Documentation from the scene of clashes by Battalion 55 fighters at a school in Khan Yunis/IDF Spokesperson's Office
At Yeruham's settlement meeting, they eulogized Sergeant Major (res.) Elisha Levinstern, who fell in the south fighting in the southern Gaza Strip. "The seventh candle has been taken from us," they wrote in the meeting's announcement. "Dear Rabbi Elisha, your light still shines and still shines in all its simplicity and wonder within us." So far, seven former students have fallen at the yeshiva: Yedidya Asher, Yakir Shinkolevsky, Eitan Fish, Ariel Eliyahu, Yinon Fleischmann and Eitan Rosenzweig.
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this morning, the IDF allowed the publication that Levinstern, 38, from Harish, volunteered in the 8104th Armored Battalion and fell in battle yesterday. "The brilliant light of dear Rabbi Elisha has been silenced. Rabbi Elisha, a student of the eleventh cohort, was always a real yeshiva student, even if he spent most of his time outside the walls of the beit midrash," the yeshiva added. "We still remember how, devoutly, year after year, Elisha came to prayers with his entire wonderful family."
Elisha Levinstern/IDF Spokesperson
Yedidya Asher/IDF Spokesperson
Yakir Shinkolevsky/IDF Spokesperson
Eitan Fish/IDF Spokesperson
Corporal Ariel Eliyahu, from Mitzpe Jericho, a soldier in the 77th Battalion, 19 years old when he fell./IDF Spokesperson
Yinon Fleischman / Documentation in social networks according to section 27A of the Copyright Law
Eitan Rosenzweig/IDF Spokesperson
The yeshiva obituary continued: "We promise to continue to enhance the candles of your smiling fear of heaven, your beloved erudition, your simple and warming enlightenment, and to always raise them on the tablet of our hearts, in holy words in the beit midrash and throughout this world."
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