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Ehud Goldwasser
Ehud "Udi" Goldwasser (Hebrew: אהוד גולדווסר; 18 July 1975 – 12 July 2006) was an Israeli soldier who was abducted in Israel by Hezbollah along with Eldad Regev on 12 July 2006, sparking the 2006 Lebanon War. His rank was First Sergeant.
On 16 July 2008, the bodies of Goldwasser and Regev were returned to Israel in the 2008 Israel–Hezbollah prisoner exchange. Israeli officials claimed an examination of the bodies determined that the two reservists were killed during the ambush. A Lebanese minister claimed the soldiers were killed during the Israeli bombing.
Prior to his abduction at Israel's border with Lebanon, Ehud "Udi" Goldwasser lived in Nahariya. He was a graduate student at the Technion, the Israeli Institute of Technology, from which he had earlier earned an undergraduate degree in environmental engineering.
As a teenager, he lived in South Africa with his parents, Shlomo and Mickey, and two younger brothers. In 2005, he married Karnit, who would later campaign globally for his release. He was interested in environmental conservation, motorcycles, sailing and photography.
According to the United Nations, the fighting of the 2006 Hezbollah cross-border raid began at around 9 AM when Hezbollah launched rockets on Israeli towns along the Lebanese border, apparently as a diversion. A force then attacked two armored IDF Humvees patrolling the border near the Israeli village of Zar'it with anti-tank rockets, and abducted the two soldiers. An Israeli Merkava Mk. II tank was damaged by a 200 kg improvised explosive device, while attempting to give pursuit, killing all four crewmembers.
In a prisoner exchange on 16 July 2008, Hezbollah transferred the coffins of Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev, in exchange for Lebanese militant Samir Kuntar and four Hezbollah fighters captured by Israel during the 2006 Lebanon War, as well as the remains of 199 Lebanese and Palestinian militants.
On 19 September 2006, rock band Aerosmith dedicated their hit song "Dream On" to Goldwasser at the request of his wife.
On the morning of July 12, 2006, at 09:05, the Hezbollah organization initiated an attack on northern Israeli settlements by firing rockets and Katyusha rockets as a diversionary action. At the same time, in the area of settlement Zar'it, near the Lebanese border (which was unoccupied), in communication line 105, at a location where Route Zar'it-Shetula crosses the border, a Hezbollah squad climbed over the border fence without being detected. The squad launched two anti-tank missiles at two IDF vehicles of the HMMWV type that were called for patrol along the border. From the first vehicle, carrying soldiers Regev and Goldwasser, two soldiers managed to extricate themselves, while one of them was seriously wounded. The Hezbollah members did not discover them. The second vehicle sustained a direct hit from an anti-tank missile, resulting in the deaths of three soldiers: Eyal Benin, Shani Turgeman, and Wasim Salah Nazal.
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Ehud Goldwasser
Ehud "Udi" Goldwasser (Hebrew: אהוד גולדווסר; 18 July 1975 – 12 July 2006) was an Israeli soldier who was abducted in Israel by Hezbollah along with Eldad Regev on 12 July 2006, sparking the 2006 Lebanon War. His rank was First Sergeant.
On 16 July 2008, the bodies of Goldwasser and Regev were returned to Israel in the 2008 Israel–Hezbollah prisoner exchange. Israeli officials claimed an examination of the bodies determined that the two reservists were killed during the ambush. A Lebanese minister claimed the soldiers were killed during the Israeli bombing.
Prior to his abduction at Israel's border with Lebanon, Ehud "Udi" Goldwasser lived in Nahariya. He was a graduate student at the Technion, the Israeli Institute of Technology, from which he had earlier earned an undergraduate degree in environmental engineering.
As a teenager, he lived in South Africa with his parents, Shlomo and Mickey, and two younger brothers. In 2005, he married Karnit, who would later campaign globally for his release. He was interested in environmental conservation, motorcycles, sailing and photography.
According to the United Nations, the fighting of the 2006 Hezbollah cross-border raid began at around 9 AM when Hezbollah launched rockets on Israeli towns along the Lebanese border, apparently as a diversion. A force then attacked two armored IDF Humvees patrolling the border near the Israeli village of Zar'it with anti-tank rockets, and abducted the two soldiers. An Israeli Merkava Mk. II tank was damaged by a 200 kg improvised explosive device, while attempting to give pursuit, killing all four crewmembers.
In a prisoner exchange on 16 July 2008, Hezbollah transferred the coffins of Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev, in exchange for Lebanese militant Samir Kuntar and four Hezbollah fighters captured by Israel during the 2006 Lebanon War, as well as the remains of 199 Lebanese and Palestinian militants.
On 19 September 2006, rock band Aerosmith dedicated their hit song "Dream On" to Goldwasser at the request of his wife.
On the morning of July 12, 2006, at 09:05, the Hezbollah organization initiated an attack on northern Israeli settlements by firing rockets and Katyusha rockets as a diversionary action. At the same time, in the area of settlement Zar'it, near the Lebanese border (which was unoccupied), in communication line 105, at a location where Route Zar'it-Shetula crosses the border, a Hezbollah squad climbed over the border fence without being detected. The squad launched two anti-tank missiles at two IDF vehicles of the HMMWV type that were called for patrol along the border. From the first vehicle, carrying soldiers Regev and Goldwasser, two soldiers managed to extricate themselves, while one of them was seriously wounded. The Hezbollah members did not discover them. The second vehicle sustained a direct hit from an anti-tank missile, resulting in the deaths of three soldiers: Eyal Benin, Shani Turgeman, and Wasim Salah Nazal.