The Jerusalem PostThe Israeli sports world mourned St. Sgt.-Maj.Yoav Raver on Friday, who fell in battle alongside three other IDF soldiers in the Gaza Strip .
The soldiers were clearing a building in Khan Yunis when a bomb detonated, causing a building to fall on them . The incident occurred at around 6 a.m. on Friday morning, the IDF reported. Five additional soldiers were wounded in the incident, one of them is critically wounded.
Raver, 19, played for the Israeli national basketball team in his teenage years and left a considerable impact on the basketball association. He reportedly could have chosen to continue playing at a professional level, but instead chose to enlist in the IDF's elite Yahalom unit as a combat engineer.
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