Israeli Soldier Kidnapped by Terrorists

Israeli Soldier Kidnapped by Terrorists Aug 01, 2014, 02:02PM | Rachel Avraham | 5 AV, 5774 At 9:30am this morning, Israeli soldiers were fired upon in Southern Gaza and a preliminary investigation indicates that there is a concern that an Israeli soldier was kidnapped by terrorists. “The incident is at its peak and the IDF at this time has operational and intelligence efforts extended to locate the soldier. The message was delivered to his family,” the IDF stated. We suspect that Hamas kidnapped 2nd. Lt. Hadar Goldin, an IDF officer, during the exchange of fire and dragged him into a tunnel. The Israel Defense Forces earlier identified soldier as 2nd Lt. Hadar Goldin. A search operation is under way to find him, Lerner confirmed. The latest attempt at an Israel-Hamas cease-fire disintegrated Friday. After the capture of an Israeli soldier, the conflict edged closer to escalation than to peace. The soldier was "abducted" by Palestinian militants during an attack in Gaza in which two other Israeli soldiers died, Israeli military Lt. Col. Peter Lerner told CNN's Wolf Blitzer. The soldiers were decommissioning a tunnel at the time, Lerner said. Hamas spokesman Osama Hamdan denied the group had captured a soldier. "It's clear that the capture of the soldier is an Israeli story; there's nothing from the resistance saying there was a capture," he told CNN. Last October, as he was finishing his officer's course, Second Lieutenant Hadar Goldin – who is missing after presumably being abducted by Hamas – was interviewed and told of his family and of the values upon which he was raised. "In life you can choose between being involved with yourself and being involved with great things", he said and told of his motivation to "give the left hand which protects the guarding right hand." "You are raised to understand that in life you can choose between being involved with yourself and being involved with great things", Hadar Goldin (23) from Kfar Sava said last October. In a joint interview with his twin brother taken at the end of the course, Goldin recounted: "We used to spend a lot of time in Bnei Akiva, until we were instructors in different branches. We both went to the same school though in different classes, a high school Yeshiva in Ra'anana. As my brother was saying it isn’t something specific, it's an education in which you are being told and educated to understand that in life you can choose between being involved with yourself and being involved with great things ". During the interview Hadar was asked of a special experience from the officer's course and told: "We had to take a concluding exam and were at a situation where there weren’t many guys left who had to take it, and we had plenty of time to study together, and we were studying together during the entire day, when each person knew exactly what the other was thinking. How can you better understand the material this way, and we had an entire day to study". He added: "We were raised with a lot of love and with a sense of purpose, with concern of course – as there always will be as will the will to move forward and give the left hand which protects the guarding right hand. A lot of love. Goldin and his twin brother, of a religious Zionistic family in Kfar Sava, finished their infantry officer's course last year. "We were raised to love the nation and the land. Our grandparents are holocaust survivors who participated in the Independence War, our father is a regiment commander on reserve duty, it something rooted in our home. We don’t talk too much; we mostly have life, lots of education, love, and we were mostly educated to know how to make decisions". Hadar and his brother went to religious schools, to the high school Yeshiva in Ra'anana and were Bnei Akiva instructors, up until the military they were hardly separated. In the interview the two were hoping to work out their schedules so that they came home together for the weekends, "until now we had a common Chavrusa on Saturdays, we also have our routine Friday hikes and we will see how that works out". MAY G-D BE WITH HIM SO HE IS RETURNED SAFELY!!!

The father of the IDF soldier feared abducted by terrorists in the Gaza Strip said on Friday he was certain the army will be successful in its efforts to find his missing son. The military named 2nd.-Lt. Hadar Goldin, a 23-year-old, Givati officer from Kfar Saba, as the IDF soldier presumed to be abducted by Hamas. Simcha Goldin, Hadar's father, told reporters gathered outside the family home in Kfar Saba that he was sure the IDF would "not leave any stone unturned" in their search for his son. "We want to support the Israeli army and the state of Israel in its fight against Hamas in Gaza and we are certain that the army will not stop under any circumstance, and will not leave any rock unturned in the Gaza Strip and will bring Hadar back home safe and sound," he said. The UK Foreign Office said it was urgently looking into reports that missing Israeli soldier also held British nationality.