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The 51st Battalion

Eight troops from Golani's 51st Battalion lost their lives on Wednesday during heavy fighting with Hizbullah operatives in the southern Lebanese village of Bint Jbail. Another officer was killed in a clash at Maron a-Ras.

Ro'i would have been 31 years old on Thursday...We tried all day to reach him, called his friends, the hospitals...Alex, 23, from Acre, had already registered for studies at Haifa University...Amihai wanted to serve in battalion 51 in order to follow in the footsteps of his friend, Shmuel Weiss...Asaf had a month left to finish his two-year army service...Idan, 21, from Jaffa, told only his father that he was in Lebanon. "He didn't want his mother to worry"...