Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu posted a photo on Tuesday, Yom HaZikaron, showing him wearing tefillin that belonged to a fallen IDF soldier.

This is the third consecutive year that Netanyahu has donned the tefillin of a fallen soldier on Yom HaZikaron. He began doing so on the first Yom HaZikaron after the October 7 massacre, when he donned the tefillin of Moshiko (Moshe) Davino, H’yd, who fell in Operation Protective Edge, at the request of his mother, Ruchama Davino.

The following year (2025), Netanyahu put on tefillin on Yom Hazikaron in memory of Yossi Hershkovitz, H’yd, who was killed in the war in Gaza in November 2023.

This year, Netanyahu put on tefillin l’illui nishmas Sean Carmeli, H’yd, who was killed during Operation Protective Edge in 2014.

Netanyahu wrote: “On Yom HaZikaron, as in years past, I lay tefillin in memory of one of our heroes who fell for our revival and our freedom.”