{"id":809408,"date":"2026-05-20T08:13:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T08:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/809408\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T08:13:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T08:13:13","slug":"maj-itamar-sapir-killed-in-southern-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/809408\/","title":{"rendered":"Maj. Itamar Sapir killed in southern Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Major (res.) Itamar Sapir, 27, from Eli, was killed in combat in southern Lebanon<\/a>, the IDF announced on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Sapir was the deputy commander of a company in Battalion 7008.<\/p>\n

N12 reported that Sapir was killed on Tuesday morning, when Hezbollah<\/a> terrorists fired out of a church towards IDF soldiers operating in the area.<\/p>\n

Sapir is the tenth soldier killed in Lebanon since the start of the ongoing ceasefire, N12 reported.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also sent his condolences, saying, “Itamar, of blessed memory, a resident of the community of Eli, was a courageous commander who fought heroically against Hezbollah terrorists to defend our northern border.”<\/p>\n

“My wife Sara and I, together with all citizens of Israel, send our deepest condolences to his family and embrace them in this difficult hour. May his memory be a blessing.”<\/p>\n

On Saturday, the military announced that Capt. Maoz Israel Recanati<\/a>, 24, from Itamar, was killed during combat in southern Lebanon.<\/p>\n

According to the Prime Minister\u2019s Office, he was due to marry his fianc\u00e9e in about a month.<\/p>\n

On Friday, the IDF stated that Staff-Sgt. Negev Dagan<\/a>, 20, from Dekel, was killed during combat in southern Lebanon.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Major (res.) Itamar Sapir, 27, from Eli, was killed in combat in southern Lebanon, the IDF announced on…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":809409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[13855,4784,13192,50,54552,103],"class_list":["post-809408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-fallen-soldiers","tag-idf","tag-lebanon","tag-news","tag-soldiers","tag-world"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116605904985356824","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=809408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/809409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}