IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-General Gadi Eizenkott has decided to announce a citation will be awarded posthumously to terror victim Sgt. Tuvia Yanai Weissman HY”D, who was murdered trying to prevent Arab terrorists from attacking others in a Rami Levi supermarket.

Mrs. Weissman, his widow, first fought the Defense Ministry as she insisted the inscription “fell in battle” appear on the matzeivah instead of “killed in a terror attack”.

The request was submitted to the IDF commander by Weissman’s battalion commander, Colonel Yisrael Shomer. Weissman was on leave when he was in the supermarket, deciding to intervene in the hope of stopping the terrorist from stabbing others. He paid with his life.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)