Yehuda Wachsman, whose soldier son Nachshon was abducted and murdered by Hamas in 1994, has died at the age of 73.
President Reuven Rivlin paid tribute to Wachsman as "a man of faith, a man of peace, but above all, a father whose life was turned upside down."
He will be laid to rest at 7pm Thursday at Givat Shaul cemetery in Jerusalem. He is survived by his wife Esther and their son Rafael.