Remembering Adam Tzarfati: The Maglan Fighter Who Wanted to Protect His Friends

Fallen in Lebanon

Staff Sgt. Adam Tzarfati, of blessed memory, a 20-year-old fighter from Rosh HaAyin, fell overnight in southern Lebanon after a Hezbollah explosive drone struck Israeli forces operating in the area.

Tzarfati served in the elite Maglan Unit of the IDF Commando Brigade. According to Israeli reports, the drone struck around 1:00 a.m. near Yohmor, close to the Beaufort Castle area in southern Lebanon. Another soldier was seriously wounded in the attack, and two others were lightly wounded.

Remembering Adam

Eitan Carmel, a friend of Tzarfati, spoke about him in an emotional interview with Reshet Bet.

“I spoke with him a few times before he went in, and he was very emotional,” Carmel said. “He was worried about his friends. I am sure he would have preferred it to be him rather than any of his friends, because that is who he was. That is how he was raised, and that is what he believed.”

Carmel described Tzarfati as a soldier who pushed himself constantly and wanted to serve in one of the IDF’s most demanding units.

“Adam always aimed high,” Carmel said, his voice breaking. “He wanted to go as far as he possibly could. He trained, went running all day, and eventually made it to Maglan.”

A Fighter Who Wanted to Protect

Tzarfati served as a Negev machine gunner in Maglan, a role that placed him inside one of Israel’s elite combat frameworks.

“He was a Negev machine gunner and wanted to fight as much as possible, to protect the country and his friends as much as possible,” Carmel said. “He was a golden person. This is a great loss.”

For those who knew him, Adam Tzarfati is remembered not only as a fighter, but as someone driven by loyalty to his friends, his unit, and his country.

His friend’s words captured the heart of that loss: Adam was the kind of soldier who feared not for himself, but for the people beside him.