The IDF cleared for publication the names of Staff Sgt. Nir Ben Ari, 21, a fighter in the Maglan commando unit, and Staff Sgt. Yoav Klein, 21, a tank crewman in the 52nd Battalion of the 401st Armored Brigade, who fell in combat in southern Lebanon. Both families have been notified.
The military Saturday evening cleared for publication the names of two soldiers killed in combat in southern Lebanon. Staff Sgt. Nir Ben Ari, 21, from Kerem Maharal, served in the Maglan unit of the Commando Brigade. Staff Sgt. Yoav Klein, 21, from Herzliya, served as a tank crewman in the 52nd Battalion, 401st Armored Brigade ('Iron Tracks'). Both were killed in separate incidents, the IDF said. As The Zioneer previously reported (Saturday 20:46 Jerusalem), the military stated that in the incident in which Ben Ari fell, two additional soldiers were severely wounded and an officer was moderately wounded. Klein was among four soldiers killed in a single incident earlier Saturday, alongside Lt. Col. Dor Gdalya Ben-Shimun and two additional fighters whose names have not yet been released.
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