An IDF soldier from New Jersey was among two killed in a grenade accident this morning in Israel, YWN reports.
According to the report, Passaic, New Jersey resident Sgt. Shlomo Rindenow Z”L, 20, from Kibbutz S’dei Yoav, and First-Sgt. Husam Tafash Z”L, 24, from the Druse community of Beit Jon, were killed when a hand grenade detonated in the hand of a driver of a military patrol. They were patrolling along the northern border to Syria at the entrance to an outpost in the Mt. Hermon area of the Golan Heights.
Three other soldiers sustained injuries and were flown by helicopter to the Rambam Medical Center trauma unit. The wounded soldiers serve in the 401st Artillery Brigade.
IDF Northern District Commander Major-General Aviv Kochavi has ordered an investigation.
[TLS via YWN]
Does anyone know the names of the soldier who were hurt? (2 Daven 4 them?)
I think it’s Lindenow and the first press’s reports got the names ring and everyone else copied