21 years after the death of his late father, Brigadier General Erez Gerstein, who was killed in the security zone, Chief of Staff Kochavi took his officer's son for a tour of the nearby vantage point • View the documentation

Twenty-one years after Lt. Gen. Erez Gerstein was killed in Lebanon from a cargo that Hezbollah had commissioned him, Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi took his son, Deputy Omar Gerstein, to an observation on the Lebanese border.

The son of Brigadier General Erez Gerstein and Chief of Staff Kochavi observing in Lebanon // Photo: IDF Spokesman

The chief of staff shared a telephone conversation in which he learned of the death of the late Brigadier General Gerstein and said "When I arrived at the scene, I was informed that Erez had been killed. I arrived at Dad's car and I will keep this moment to myself. "In response to the question" What will this Memorial Day look like? "Omar replied" No cemetery is needed to remember. "

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During the video, Kochavi points precisely to the point in which the late Gerstein was killed in February 1999, from a party charge that was buried in the security band route where he was traveling with USSR Imad Abu Rish, Sgt. Of an SLA man killed in the Lebanese village of Sheba.

The explosion of the side cargo occurred as they were heading back toward the Lebanon station headquarters in Metulla, causing the car to sit in overturn. In 2018, the Lebanese "Al-Manar" network released a video that allegedly recorded the blast.