When Edan Kleiman was only three weeks old, his father, Arye, was the only member of his unit to survive an Egyptian ambush during the Yom Kippur War, though he was shot in his left shoulder. Nearly 20 years later, in 1992, Edan would also be shot in his left shoulder with the same weapon, a Kalashnikov AK-47, fighting Hamas in Khan Younis in Gaza.
Edan’s grandfather, Rudolf Katzenstein, a member of the Haganah, the Zionist paramilitary organisation that operated throughout Mandatory Palestine, was killed in action just five days before the creation of Israel.