The IDF reported on Thursday evening that five officers and soldiers of the Golani Brigade Reconnaissance Unit were killed in combat in southern Lebanon.
Major Ofek Bachar, 24, a company commander, from Ness Ziona; Captain Elad Siman Tov, 23, a platoon commander, from Tzofim; Staff Sergeant Elyashiv Eitan Wieder, 22, a squad commander, from Jerusalem; Staff Sergeant Yakov Hillel, 21, from Jerusalem and Staff Sergeant Yehudah Dror Yahalom, 21, from Hebron.