these young men are super motivated to enter elite combat units. it is the responsibility of commanders in the field to make sure they drink excessive amounts of water when training hard in heat wave conditions. in our days, soldiers in extreme heat training conditions in south had to hold a water can in their hands at all times or have a spout in thier mouths and drink a mouthful every 5 minutes!!!!!!!!, no excuse for dehydration in 2012 training regiments.

Another one? How tragic. Never mind.

Instead of Shlomo, call yourself Sulieman,it is more appropriate.

May he R.I.P., Amen!

My son went through the basic training program for fighters. In several exercises that required him to perform strenuous activities he vomited, fainted and had an abnormally high pulse. The medics and his officers laughed it off and refused to enter it in his record. During his test for officers training the same thing happened, but a physician heard about the problem and ordered a full cardiological exam--in August 2010. He still hasn't seen a cardiologist. He has been an excellent soldier. The mentality in training programs is that soldiers who complain fake it. Today a soldier died. The army needs to thoroughly analyze why and who ignored what. Sadly, the death did not surprise me.

tells me that the IDF Drs who examine young recuits before they enlist arent worth shit. The fault lies with the IDF. Another example of the failed COS Gantz. Gantz for those who dont know is duck in Yiddish. Under his watch the Jews of southern Israel are sitting ducks.

a teaspoonful of cayenne pepper extract in water every 15 minutes can stop a heart attack. Giving a person the building blocks of the heart helps, too, if the person can swallow: 200mg Ubiquinol Co-Q-10, 2000mg L-Carnitine, and 500mg Taurine daily. For high blood pressure, take a dropperful of Hawthorne extract in water or juice daily, too. And chelate out the gunk in the blood vessels and take full spectrum bioflavinoid vitamin C to give elasticity to blood vessels. If soldiers did all those things as a daily lifestyle, there would be fewer heart attacks.

My condolences to the family. Something is wrong here, & something smells bad. This has happened recently on a number of occasions (even with excessive 24/7 exposure), & indicates lack of command attentiveness. Dehydration & heat exhaustion do not appear quickly & terminally. Unless there was a heart defect or aneurism that escaped initial medical screening, commanders on the spot should have seen dizziness, disorientation, lack of sweating (even in very low humidity of the South/desert, where sweat evaporates quickly), &/or lack of responsiveness, regardless of physical efforts undertaken. This is not the IDF of 40+ years ago which had "water discipline", where you were given 1 liter per day for all purposes; commanders shaved with orange drink to save their water & endured the flies; & we wore thick, 100% wool, old British style "winter uniforms" (or even the later poly-wool blend...) until (usually sweltering) May 1. In years of serving in the South & Sinai, I recall only 1 incident requiring infusion & hospitalisation. Even then, water was effectively unlimited, & hourly "drink at least a full canteen" breaks were enforced. Something is wrong here, & it is the commanders responsibility to see these problems.

My daughter, a soldier in the navy in Eilat got ill during a night watch session in the winter in the cold. She went to the base doctor who sent her back to work even though she had a temperature. The next evening i took her to Bikur Rofei and her temp was 41.9. Eventually after 2 doctors and twice going to the hospital she was told that she had pnemonia. 2 weeks later she returned to the base. I spoke to the army dr. who refuses to admit that she was wrong not to treat my daughter before the pnemonia even though every year for 19 years my daughter has had chest problems in the winter. The doctors are useless.

a dropperful daily to help heal her lungs. She need to take a teaspoonful of colloidal or nanopariclized silver solution daily, too, since she is vulnerable to respiratory infections. She also needs to spray each nostril twice daily with XLEAR nasal spray or Normal saline nasal spray to clean out the sinuses. XLEAR has xylitol, a sugar that prevents bacteria and viruses from adhering to the cell walls in the sinuses. A woman who had a yearly bacterial sinus infection was cured by doing that. Try this on your daughter so she won't be vulnerable each year. She should also take echinacea, one capsule daily, to boost her immune system year-round. Nurses do that, too.