Brig. Gen. Yaki Dolf was rebuked after paratrooper recruit and reconnaissance soldier under his command were killed in separate accidents during training exercises in 2019
The military's chief ordered to investigate the incident in which two commanders were killed by friendly fire, however experience suggests that this time too bereaved families' queries will remain unanswered
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Jul. 7, 2021 11:37 PM
Israeli army Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi has decided to reprimand three senior officers and delay the promotion of one of them following the death of an 18-year-old recruit who died while trying out in 2019 for the paratroop brigade.
Ron Eliyahu Oved, a member of Kibbutz Palmahim, was outside an army base in the Negev along with a group of other young people when an out-of-control bus rolled down a slope and hit them. Two members of the group were moderately injured, and three others were lightly hurt.
Following an investigation, it was decided that Brig. Gen. Yaakov Dolf – the commander of the brigade at the time and currently military secretary to Defense Minister Benny Gantz – would be reprimanded and be ineligible for appointment as division commander, as had been planned for this year.