{"id":458647,"date":"2026-05-25T05:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T05:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/458647\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T05:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T05:26:08","slug":"sgt-nehoray-leizer-killed-in-combat-in-southern-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/458647\/","title":{"rendered":"Sgt. Nehoray Leizer killed in combat in southern Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sgt. Nehoray Leizer was killed in battle while fighting in southern Lebanon, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/tags\/idf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">IDF<\/a> announced early Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Leizer, 19, from Eilat, served in the 601st Combat Engineering Battalion in the 401st Armored Brigade, the military said. His family has been notified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">He is survived by his parents and two younger siblings.<\/p>\n<p>According to initial assessments, Leizer was killed by an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-897187\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">explosive drone<\/a> launched by Hezbollah.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Leizer&#8217;s funeral will take place at 5 p.m. in Eilat. He will be buried in the military section of the city&#8217;s cemetery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The municipality added in a Monday morning statement that starting at 4:15 p.m., it will hand out flags at the cemetery entrance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">An additional soldier was severely wounded during the incident and was evacuated to the hospital for treatment. His family has been notified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Hamburger had served as a technology and maintenance soldier in the brigade&#8217;s 9th Battalion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">During the incident in which Hamburger fell, another IDF soldier was severely wounded, and a non-commissioned officer was lightly wounded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">In the same incident, a reservist officer was moderately wounded by another explosive drone impact, while a non-commissioned officer was lightly wounded.<\/p>\n<p>Amir Bohbot contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sgt. Nehoray Leizer was killed in battle while fighting in southern Lebanon, the IDF announced early Monday. Leizer,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[16606,6209,42,86,1031,46,88,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-458647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-drone","tag-fallen-soldiers","tag-headlines","tag-hezbollah","tag-idf","tag-israel","tag-lebanon","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\/458647","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=458647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}