Overview
- IDF data show 22 active-duty soldiers died by suicide in 2025, the most since 2010 when 28 such deaths were recorded.
- Military Police Criminal Investigation Division opened an inquiry into the death of 23-year-old lone soldier Ari Goldberg in southern Israel, with findings to be forwarded to the Military Advocate General’s Corps.
- Goldberg, a combat engineering fighter from Virginia who arrived in 2022 and later immigrated, served as a sniper in Gaza and Lebanon during the Swords of Iron war.
- Army officials caution that the coming year will be particularly difficult for the mental health of military personnel in the post-war period.
- VINnews reports 22 suspected-suicide cases are under review or were investigated—12 conscripts, 1 career soldier, and 9 reservists—and says the 2025 overall death toll rose to 152 after Goldberg’s death.