Sergeant Yehonatan Yitzhak Samo from Carmei Tzur, was seriously injured in the battle in the center of the Gaza Strip and was transferred to Beilinson Hospital. The doctors fought for his life and in the end he was declared brain dead.
His family requested to donate his organs: his heart was transplanted in a 46-year-old man in Beilinson, his lungs in a 36-year-old man in Beilinson, his liver in a 51-year-old man in Ichilov, his liver lobe in an 8-month-old baby girl in Schneider, his kidney in a 10-year-old boy in Schneider, and another kidney in a 50-year-old man in Hadassah.
Yehonatan's family said: "Yehonatan was the eldest son of his parents Ayelet and Moshe, and a brother to Be'eri, Lavi, Tamar and Achinoam. He had big beautiful eyes and a captivating smile. He never complained about difficulties. As a teenager he was a counselor in the Bnei Akiva youth movement and volunteered in many places. He participated in academic programs for outstanding youth. He studied at the yeshiva 'Neve Shmuel' in the settlement of Efrat and then continued to pre-military training at 'Aderet' in Kfar Silver, which combines religious and secular people."
