Captain Dr. Igor Rotshtein

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Captain Dr. Igor Rothstein volunteered for reserve duty and was killed in village of Markhava by terrorists. An anti - tank missile hit Igor, while he was running towards an injured soldier, in attempt of saving his life.

Rothstein, 35, from the town of Nave Oved next to Tiberias, was born in the former Soviet Union. In 1995 he completed his medical studies in Tomsk, and two years later immigrated to Israel and asked to be enlisted to the army. For five years he served in the IDF as a doctor in a combat engineering battalion # 603. In 2005 he requested to do residency at a hospital. He arrived at the surgical orthopedic unit in Poriah Hospital in Tiberias.