{"id":450131,"date":"2026-05-19T21:55:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T21:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/450131\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T21:55:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T21:55:15","slug":"maj-itamar-sapir-killed-in-southern-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/450131\/","title":{"rendered":"Maj. Itamar Sapir killed in southern Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Major (res.) Itamar Sapir, 27, from Eli, was killed in combat in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/defense-news\/article-896671\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">southern Lebanon<\/a>, the IDF announced on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Sapir was the deputy commander of a company in Battalion 7008.<\/p>\n<p>N12 reported that Sapir was killed on Tuesday morning, when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/tags\/hezbollah\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hezbollah<\/a> terrorists fired out of a church towards IDF soldiers operating in the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Sapir is the tenth soldier killed in Lebanon since the start of the ongoing ceasefire, N12 reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">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<p>On Saturday, the military announced that<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-896374\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Capt. Maoz Israel Recanati<\/a>, 24, from Itamar, was killed during combat in southern Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">According to the Prime Minister\u2019s Office, he was due to marry his fiancee in about a month.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the IDF stated that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/defense-news\/article-896300\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">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&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6209,42,1031,88,43,37165,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-450131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-fallen-soldiers","tag-headlines","tag-idf","tag-lebanon","tag-news","tag-soldiers","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450131","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=450131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}