Get email notification for articles from Yaniv Kubovich
Follow
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.
Top IDF officers get rebuked over death of recruit, subpar probe timesofisrael.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from timesofisrael.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Judah Ari Gross is The Times of Israel s military correspondent.
Ron Eliyahu Oved, right, and his father. Oved was killed in an accident during a tryout for the IDF Paratroopers Brigade on April 11, 2019. (Courtesy of the family)
The Israel Defense Forces announced Monday it was launching a fresh investigation into the death of a teenage recruit, Ron Oved, who was killed when a bus rolled into his tent during a tryout for the Paratroopers Brigade in 2019.
The new probe the IDF’s third into the incident came after the Military Police completed its investigation into Oved’s death and shortly after the Haaretz newspaper published a report on the matter, which accused the military of failing to adequately look into the case.