Career
His rank was First Sergeant. On 16 July 2008, the bodies of Goldwasser and Regev were returned to Israel in the 2008 Israel–Hezbollah prisoner exchange. Israeli officials claimed an examination of the bodies determined that the two reservists were killed during the ambush.
A Lebanese minister claimed the soldiers were killed during the Israeli bombing.
Prior to his abduction at Israel"s border with Lebanon, Ehud "Udi" Goldwasser lived in Nahariya. He was a graduate student at the Technion, the Israeli Institute of Technology, from which he had earlier earned an undergraduate degree in environmental engineering.
He was interested in environmental conservation, motorcycles, sailing and photography. According to the United Nations, the fighting began at around 9 Department of Administration and Management when Hezbollah launched rockets on Israeli military positions along the Lebanese border, apparently as a diversion.
A force then attacked two armored Israel Defense Forces Humvees patrolling the border near the Israeli village of Zar"it with anti-tank rockets, and abducted the two soldiers.
An Israeli Merkava Mk. II tank was damaged by a 200 kg improvised explosive device, while attempting to give pursuit, killing all four crewmembers. On 16 July 2008, Hezbollah transferred the coffins of Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev, in exchange for Lebanese militant Samir Kuntar and four Hezbollah fighters captured by Israel during the 2006 Lebanon War, as well as the remains of 199 Lebanese and Palestinian militants.