First Sgt. Dror Altun, 29, an officer in the elite Yamam counter-terror unit, was killed on October 7 battling the Hamas invasion of southern Israel. He is survived by his wife Clil, their son Erez, his parents Avi and Ruti and his older brothers Omri and Yuval. Dror was fiercely independent and loved to be outdoors. He played soccer and also loved dancing, learning ballroom dancing and even taking ballet lessons. He enlisted in the IDF in 2013 and served in the Combat Engineering Corps. In 2019, he joined the Israel Police and served in Yamam. Dror and Clil got married in 2020 and their son, Erez, was born in 2023.