WATCH: Fallen soldier’s parents receive officer’s pin he never got to claim

In October 2025, IDF soldier Itay Yavetz fell in battle against Hamas in Gaza, leaving him unable to complete the officer course he was attending.

At the class’s graduation, his parents attended the ceremony and received the officer’s pin in his memory.

THIS. IS. ISRAEL.
IDF soldier Itai Yaavetz, 21, fell while fighting Hamas terrorists in Gaza in October 2025.
Itai was part of a special army program to prepare the next generation of IDF leadership.
The IDF invited his parents and brother pic.twitter.com/dyBKt5F0Hn

— KARIN GOLAN קארין גולן (@KARINGOLANghsg) August 10, 2026

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