Israeli press review: Eulogies for slain Israeli soldier who 'wanted to kill'

On Saturday, Israeli soldier Avraham Ben Pinchas, a platoon commander in the Armoured Brigade, died after being hit by an anti-tank missile fired at the tank he was in during an Israeli operation in the southern Gaza Strip.

Many have eulogised Ben Pinchas, a settler from the settlement of Harsha, northwest of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.

His neighbour, Yaakov, said of Ben Pinchas: "One of the last times you were at home you were bothered a lot because in your opinion we should look at the issue of war like a passage in the Talmud.

"You demanded that we go into the depth of the issue and see things as you see them – this is the order of the war – to conquer the Land of Israel and save the people of Israel."

Another eulogy was published on the WhatsApp group of Hilltop News, a chat that reports news from radical Israeli settlers in the West Bank settlements.

Read about this story, and others in the Israeli media over recent days, in the press review below.