Omer Balva, 22, was killed Friday in northern Israel near the Lebanese border, after being called last week to serve as a reservist in the Israeli military.
A 22-year-old Israeli military reservist who grew up outside Washington, D.C., was killed Friday by anti-tank missile fire near Israel's northern border with Lebanon, the Israel Defense Forces and his family said. Omer Balva, a staff sergeant and platoon commander in the 9203 battalion of the Alexandroni Brigade, was one of 360,000 reservists called up to serve since Israel declared war on Hamas in the wake of the militant group's Oct. 7 terror attack.
He is a hero to the State of Israel, the Jewish people, and the school. We are devastated and heartbroken.'After graduating high school in 2019, Balva moved to Israel, CBS affiliate WUSA reported. He was pursuing a bachelor's degree in business administration and economics at Reichman University in Herzliya, Israel, according to the university, which noted his death along with the deaths of other students in a page on its website.
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