Son of Mickey and Shlomo. Ehud (Udi) was born in Nahariya on July 18, 1975. He was the eldest son of his parents, the eldest brother of Yair and Gadi On 2 December 1993, Ehud was drafted into the IDF. He served in infantry and was discharged three years later as sergeant. After his release he returned to Nahariya. Ehud married Karnit. In June 2006, Ehud was drafted into reserve duty. On the 12th of Tammuz 5766 (12.7.2006), the last day of reserve duty, he and his friend Sergeant Eldad Regev went on their last tour. The patrol included two Hummer vehicles traveling along an axis parallel to the perimeter fence on the Lebanese border from west to east, between Zar’it and Shatula, within the sovereign territory of the State of Israel. Ehud was in the front seat, to the right of the driver. Eldad sat in the backseat, behind him. At 09:05, Hezbollah terrorists opened heavy artillery shelling along the northern border. The barrage of fire included mortar fire, light arms fire, and Katyushas. In retrospect, it turned out that this was a diversion designed to disguise the planned abduction of the soldiers. At that time, the Hammer vehicles of the patrol rode through a wadi, when suddenly the patrol was attacked by one or two members of a Hezbollah force. The first “Hammer” vehicle, in which Ehud and Eldad were traveling, was hit first by RPGs. The second Hammer, about 50 meters behind him, reported on the incident before he was hit directly by two anti-tank missiles, which caused the deaths of the three soldiers in the vehicle – Sergeant First Sergeant and Sergeant Salah Nazzal, ) And Sergeant Shani Turgeman After the rocket attack, the terrorists opened fire on the soldiers and the vehicles that were damaged, and the first Hammer driver managed to stop the vehicle and escape. Ehud and Eldad to the Lebanese territory, and another squad, armed with light weapons and machine guns, backed the kidnappers, and it was not known whether Ehud and Eldad managed to get out of what Were killed on their own before they were kidnapped, and what was their medical condition during the abduction, where traces, blood stains and a breach in the fence were found, immediately after the incident a preliminary attempt was made to locate Ehud and Eldad. The tank was destroyed by a tank, which was estimated at hundreds of kilograms of explosives, and the tank was completely destroyed and the four crew members – Sergeant Yaniv Bar-On, First Sergeant Shlomi Yirmiyahu , First Sergeant Gadi Moysev and First Sergeant Alexei Kushnirski – were killed. Sergeant Nimrod Cohen was killed shortly after, when he arrived with the rescue force in the tank. Following this chain of events, the Israeli government decided to embark on the Second Lebanon War, which lasted for a little more than a month. The fate of Ehud and Eldad was unknown for a long time. Only on the morning of Wednesday, July 16, 2008, after seven hundred and thirty-five days of pain and life between hope and despair, were the bodies of Ehud and Eldad returned to Israel as part of a prisoner exchange deal between Israel and Hezbollah. The medical tests indicated that the two were apparently killed during the abduction. Ehud fell in combat on the northern border on July 12, 2006, during the Second Lebanon War. Thirty-one years old. He was brought to rest in the military cemetery in Nahariya two years after his fall, when his body was taken from Lebanon. Survived by a wife, parents and two brothers. After his fall, Ehud was promoted to the rank of First Sergeant. On Ehud’s gravestone, the family wrote: “Udi was kidnapped from his homeland by a terrorist organization and returned from captivity to his home. In Admit Park in the north, overlooking Lebanon, a road was paved in the landscapeAnd erected a lookout in memory of those killed in the same battle, among them Ehud Goldwasser. (The information on this page is written according to the data in the possession of the Unit for the Commemoration of the Soldier, the full story of life will be published later.) (This page is part of the Yizkor memorial project held by the Ministry of Defense)
