Major (res.) Itamar Sapir, 27, from Eli, was killed in combat in southern Lebanon, the IDF announced on Tuesday.
Sapir was the deputy commander of a company in Battalion 7008.
N12 reported that Sapir was killed on Tuesday morning, when Hezbollah terrorists fired out of a church towards IDF soldiers operating in the area.
Sapir is the tenth soldier killed in Lebanon since the start of the ongoing ceasefire, N12 reported.
Former prime minister Naftali Bennett mourned Sapir in a post on X/Twitter, revealing that the fallen soldier left behind a wife and a one-and-a-half-year-old son.
On Saturday, the military announced that Capt. Maoz Israel Recanati, 24, from Itamar, was killed during combat in southern Lebanon.
According to the Prime Minister’s Office, he was due to marry his fiancee in about a month.
On Friday, the IDF stated that Staff-Sgt. Negev Dagan, 20, from Dekel, was killed during combat in southern Lebanon.