The condition of 52-year-old Yedioth Aharonoth reporter Tzadok Yehezkeli, who was seriously injured Tuesday morning in Georgia while covering the ongoing fighting in the city of Gori, near the South Ossetian border, slightly improved overnight. On Wednesday morning three doctors including Avi Rivkind head of the surgery and trauma at Hadassah University Medical Center in Jerusalem accompanied Yehezkeli on the flight home.
At around noon Yehezkeli was standing with several other local and foreign reporters in the town square in Gori in south Ossetia when a sudden blast occurred, apparently caused by a single mortar.A number of other journalists who were with Yehezkeli at the time were also hurt in the incident, including one Dutch photographer, who died from his wounds.
The man who evacuated Yehezkeli and got him to an ambulance was Dutch RTL reporter Jeroen Akkermans, who was also injured in the blast. An RTL cameraman, Stan Storimans, was killed in the blast, along with three Georgian civilians. Akkermans also suffered a shrapnel wound to his leg.
Yehezkeli was the 2002 recipient of the Sokolov Prize for Journalism for an investigative series of articles co-authored with fellow journalist Anat Tal-Shir. The two uncovered the Kishon diving scandal, which claimed the army was to blame for the high rate of cancer among former navy commandos who trained in the polluted waters of the Kishon River. 08/13/08
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