Yedidya Asher Lev

Yedidya Asher Lev, from Tal Menashe, was a a deputy company commander in the Givati Brigade’s Shaked Battalion. He fell in battle in the Gaza Strip. 
Just a few months ago, Yedidya donated bone marrow to a woman in her 60s.
Orna, Yedidya's mother eulogized him: "My firstborn, I would like one more hug, one more kiss on the forehead, one more smile. It is not normal for parents to bury a son, it is not normal for siblings to eulogize a brother. It is not normal for grandparents to bury a grandson, but we are not a normal people, we are a people with God. I know that we are a generation of redemption, and redemption comes in a process, there are ups and downs and everything in the world needs to go through some kind of investigation.

"Grandpa Yaacov and Grandma Haviva immigrated from Europe and survived the Holocaust. Great-grandfather, Rav Binyamin, was murdered by the Nazis, Grandpa Yitzchak and Grandma Esther were born here and all of them were partners in the building of the land - in the city and in the moshav. Everything was not always abundant, but there was great faith, an enormous love for the Land Israel and recognition of the State of Israel as the beginning of the growth of our salvation."
His father, Noam: "Yedidya, my dear son, how can I eulogize you? How much I love you and how proud I am of you. Last night Yaki the MP called and told how you fought bravely, standing in the "nagmash" and covering him and the soldiers, and then you were hit. No words can describe how honest you were, straight as an arrow. We saw it at home, we heard about it from your friends in the army in everything you did. Always everything honestly, absolutely wonderful, the mouth and the heart are one."