He had struggled with severe PTSD following Operation Protective Edge and held a legal exemption from military service. Yet, the moment the war broke out, he went down south to join the fight. He was killed by an anti-tank missile in the northern Gaza Strip. Just a month prior, he had written that he was ready to fight even at the cost of injury to himself or his friends. His friends recounted that he was one of the strongest men they knew, both in body and in spirit.