Wire

Sign in to baba News

One account across the web, iPhone and Android — your subscription follows it.

or use an email code

By continuing you agree to the terms and privacy policy.

News Plus

Welcome, one more step

The cross-newsroom layer: who covered a story, who didn’t, and how each one worded it. Plus your own news, on every device.

Follow your news

  • Unlimited follows
  • Alerts for what you follow (in the app)
  • Story alerts (in the app)
  • Hide read stories
  • The daily brief by email

See the coverage

  • Headlines side by side
  • Who reported first
  • Every newsroom clip, from every platform
  • Every newsroom photo on a story

Go deeper

  • The whole archive
  • Your reading diet
  • Duki without the daily limit
  • The Desk: the news, spoken every hour
  • Catch Me Up, and what changed since you read it
  • The Wire

Free stays free: the live wire, Not Everywhere, the brief, five follows and five Duki questions a day.

Search stories

Type at least two characters. Results come from every newsroom baba reads.

↑↓ to move · ↵ to open · esc to close

Sign in to baba News

Sign in to keep asking. News Plus removes the daily limit.

or use an email code

By continuing you agree to the terms and privacy policy.

News Plus · Ask Duki

Keep asking Duki

A free account gets five questions a day. News Plus lifts the daily limit.

Also in News Plus

  • The whole archive
  • Headlines side by side
  • Who reported first
  • The Desk, every hour

not everywhere· Culture· Updated

Wounded Fighter from 'Ballad for a Medic' Dies at 80

Yosef Hagual, the inspiration for the song "Ballad for a Medic," died at 80. He was wounded in the Six-Day War, and his medic's bravery in treating him under fire became legendary.

13 newsrooms · 2 languages · since

Sign in to baba News

Sign in to save this article and find it on your phone.

or use an email code

By continuing you agree to the terms and privacy policy.

Wounded Fighter from 'Ballad for a Medic' Dies at 80
Illustration by baba

What happened

  1. 01Yosef Hagual, inspiration for "Ballad for a Medic," died at 80.
  2. 02He was wounded in the Battle for Jerusalem in 1967.
  3. 03A medic, Shlomo Epstein, saved Hagual's life under fire.
  4. 04The song about the event was performed in 1969.
  5. 05Epstein's story is still taught to IDF medics.
Translated and summarized by baba from Channel 13, the latest report. Read Channel 13’s original

The coverage

13 newsrooms on this story

Who covered it

  • Left1
  • Centre5
  • Right6+1
  • HarediNone
  • ArabNone
  • Other1

Not in the Haredi or Arab press

How it broke

Plus

News Plus · Who reported first

See which newsroom broke it

The order the newsrooms filed in, and how long each side of the press waited before running the story.

Also in News Plus

  • Headlines side by side
  • Story alerts
  • The Wire
  • Unlimited follows

How the headlines differ

Plus

News Plus · Who reported first

See which newsroom broke it

The order the newsrooms filed in, and how long each side of the press waited before running the story.

Also in News Plus

  • Headlines side by side
  • Story alerts
  • The Wire
  • Unlimited follows