An 18-year-old Israeli soldier was found dead with multiple stab wounds in the Gush Etzion region on the morning of August 8.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) tweeted that the soldier, who has not been publicly identified, “was a student in a Yeshiva.”
The body of a soldier was found in the early hours of the morning with stabbing wounds, near the city of Hebron. The soldier was a student in a Yeshiva, at the first stage of his military service.
Our troops together with Israeli security forces are searching the area.
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) August 8, 2019
According to the Jerusalem Post, the victim was in the IDF’s Hesder program, where he could study Yeshiva while serving in the military.
Rabbi Shlomo Wilk, the principal of the Yeshiva that the soldier was studying at, told Army Radio that the soldier “went to Jerusalem to buy gifts for his rabbis” on August 7 “and on the way back there was an attack. He was found clutching the books that he’d bought.”
IDF Spokesperson Brig. Gen. Ronen Manelis told the Post that the soldier was likely on his own and called the stabbing “a serious terror attack.”
The IDF is still searching for the murderer.
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