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Oded Lifshitz

In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “israeli journalist”. Today it says “israeli journalist and peace activist”.
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Oded Lifshitz's funeral speaks next to his coffin, February 25, 2025 Oded Lifshitz ( Hebrew : עודד ליפשיץ ; 1940 – late 2023) was an Israeli journalist. He was born in Haifa and later served in the Israeli military's 50th Battalion of the Paratroopers Brigade . He later became a journalist and peace activist. He worked for Al HaMishmar , and later broadcast on Army Radio . On 7 October 2023, Lifshitz was kidnapped in the Nir Oz massacre , part of the surprise attack on Israel . His captors, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), claimed that he was killed in the Israeli bombing of Gaza Strip in late 2023; however the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) claimed that he was killed in captivity by PIJ. Lifshitz's body was returned to Israel in February 2025, as part of the 2025 Gaza war ceasefire and hostage-prisoner exchange .

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israeli journalist and peace activist

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