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Get email notification for articles from Yaniv Kubovich Follow Jul. 7, 2021 11:37 PM Israeli army Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi has decided to reprimand three senior officers and delay the promotion of one of them following the death of an 18-year-old recruit who died while trying out in 2019 for the paratroop brigade. Ron Eliyahu Oved, a member of Kibbutz Palmahim, was outside an army base in the Negev along with a group of other young people when an out-of-control bus rolled down a slope and hit them. Two members of the group were moderately injured, and three others were lightly hurt. Follo...

Judah Ari Gross is The Times of Israel's military correspondent. Ron Eliyahu Oved, right, and his father. Oved was killed in an accident during a tryout for the IDF Paratroopers Brigade on April 11, 2019. (Courtesy of the family) The Israel Defense Forces announced Monday it was launching a fresh investigation into the death of a teenage recruit, Ron Oved, who was killed when a bus rolled into his tent during a tryout for the Paratroopers Brigade in 2019. The new probe — the IDF’s third into the incident — came after the Military Police completed its investigation into Oved’s death an...