{"id":445209,"date":"2026-05-16T19:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T19:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/445209\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T19:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T19:50:10","slug":"katz-the-fall-of-capt-maoz-rakanti-shortly-before-his-wedding-is-heartbreaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/445209\/","title":{"rendered":"Katz: &#8216;The fall of Capt. Maoz Rakanti shortly before his wedding is heartbreaking&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defense Minister Israel Katz eulogized Captain Maoz Israel Rakanti, who fell in southern Lebanon, writing that &#8220;Maoz was a revered, courageous commander devoted to his subordinates &#8211; a fighter who led from the front, with responsibility, personal example and love of country.&#8221; Katz added: &#8220;His fall, shortly before he was to establish a home and marry his beloved, is heartbreaking and illustrates the unbearable price paid by the best of our sons in the battle for Israel&#8217;s security. My heart is with his family, with his fianc\u00e9e, with his comrades-in-arms and with the IDF soldiers.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Defense Minister Israel Katz eulogized Captain Maoz Israel Rakanti, who fell in southern Lebanon, writing that &#8220;Maoz was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-445209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}