Family of Fallen Israeli Soldier Gilad Nitzan Releases Tribute Video Ahead of Brother's Wedding

The family of Gilad Nitzan, an Israeli soldier who was killed in the recent 'Sword of Iron' war, produced a special video clip featuring the song 'Emek Shilo' to honor the wedding of his brother, Lavi Nitzan, held yesterday. Gilad, a fighter in the Givati Reconnaissance Battalion and a student at Avinoam Yeshiva, was killed in action shortly after being deployed directly from a Sukkot dance celebration to the battlefield.

During the wedding ceremony, their father Yaakov Nitzan took soil from the site where Gilad was killed, mixed it with earth from the Temple Mount, and placed it on Lavi's forehead, symbolizing the connection between personal and national grief. Gilad was part of a reconnaissance team that, on November 3, was the first to approach a building with suspicious activity. They came under heavy fire, resulting in one soldier wounded and a fierce firefight during which Gilad, the platoon commander, and another soldier were killed.

The tribute video and the symbolic act at the wedding highlight the family's ongoing mourning and the intertwining of their private loss with the broader conflict affecting Israel.