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In a shocking twist of irony, Staff-Sergeant Yishai Mann apparently found a less conventional way to serve his country—by becoming a tragic statistic in a military traffic accident while on operational duty. Yes, because what’s a soldier’s life without the thrill of dodging bullets and, apparently, vehicles?
Mann, a vibrant 21 from Mitzpe Jericho, was part of that elite 50 Battalion of the Nahal Brigade, which sounds impressive until you realize it’s just another fancy name for a group of young people trying to avoid the regular life of, say, getting stuck in a Tinder date gone wrong.
Falling near the Gaza Strip—because that’s where all the action is, right?—Mann’s untimely exit seems like an unfortunate misstep in what by now reads like a tragicomedy. It’s not every day one manages to die in a combat zone, not from enemy fire, but from the vehicular equivalent of a plot twist. One opts for the battlefield and instead gets the streets. Who knew the real enemy was traffic?
This unfortunate incident raises the grim Total of IDF soldiers lost since October 7 last year to 749—because, apparently, soldiering comes with an unwritten rule that life expectancy is just an estimate. And let’s not forget that since the military’s current ground operations began, 356 of those have taken a detour into the afterlife. Perhaps we should consider offering “Safe Driving Courses” for our soldiers instead of more artillery; it seems the real conflict here is between their vehicles and common sense.
So, as the IDs and spreadsheets tally the costs of war, let’s give a moment of awkward pause to reflect: sometimes the battles we choose can collide violently with the day-to-day absurdities of life, and sometimes that collision happens in the worst way possible—just not the way anyone expected. Cheers to the irony of it all!
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