Ben Rina and Gideon Burko. Born on February 10, 1967 in the Kiryat Shalom neighborhood of Tel Aviv, brother to Ronen and Tali, Erez was educated at the “Givat HaShalom” elementary school in the city, and was sent by the Tel Aviv University School of Education to the Department of Gifted Children In the ninth grade, he chose to move to the military boarding school for the command and staff of the Real Gymnasium in Haifa, where he graduated from the military boarding school, where he changed his life and shaped his personality. From his childhood, he was an outstanding soccer player in the Betar Tel Aviv children’s group, in his youth, a member of the Gadna He was also an aerobics enthusiast and a civil aviation licenseer, and Erez loved the country and its landscapes and used to go hiking in the countryside and sneak around, choosing Erez was very attached to his family, especially to his sister Tali, and in early 1985, Erez enlisted in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in Sayeret Matkal, where he completed a combat paramedics course, an officers’ course and a platoon commanders course. Operation of the reconnaissance unit. Erez excelled in every position he performed and did not settle for less. His commanders described him as a quiet, modest soldier, full of joie de vivre and love for his friends, devoted to his job, with the strength of survival and courage. During his service he received five honorable mentions for his participation in important and dangerous operations. In his diary, Erez wrote before leaving for one of the operations: “To this day, I have carried out several very important operations for the nation and the State of Israel, and in the near future I am participating in another operation that I do not know whether I will return from it or not. In my heart, they are the same that I will die for them, and if I die it will not be in vain, since as long as they live in their country and know what freedom is, I benefited. ” At the beginning of November 1988, Erez joined the ranks of the career army and continued to fulfill his role in the commando unit. In March 1989 he married Rachel and three years later their son Yarden was born. In March 1993, Erez received unpaid leave from the army and went on a mission abroad for the Defense Ministry, and a few months later he began to suffer from severe headaches, but he did not give up and continued to function. After the surgery, and ten days later, on the 28th of Cheshvan 5744 (November 12, 1993), he died at the age of 26. Erez was laid to rest in the Kiryat Shaul military cemetery, leaving a wife, son, parents, brother and sister. Erez was promoted to the rank of major, and his family was awarded a certificate of honor and honor in honor of Erez, who was signed by the head of the manpower department. Erez became an integral part of the life of the unit, modestly and quietly, and always with a friendly smile, Erez became a man who simply can not accept his death without time. He came from the military boarding school in Haifa. Though thin and frail in appearance, it quickly became apparent that beneath this delicate vision lay a desire of iron and uncompromising determination. Without charismatic charisma and without a trace of arrogance, Erez became a central axis both in training and in command and in operational activity. Along with persistent perseverance and extraordinary ability to deal with difficulties and situations of danger, Sarah packed a pleasant and courteous atmosphere around him, always in the direction of understanding the other and helping others. Erez’s death has torn us apart not only as an excellent fighter and commander, but first and foremost as a warm man”Ronen, Erez ‘s brother, eulogized him and spoke of the difficulty of parting from a pack and of longing” for the smiling, confident, supportive and supportive character that seemed to be unable to resist the willpower and the unqualified ability. “A friend of the unit wrote the poem” Angel of flesh and blood “in his memory:” And you were still an angel / while you were alive / an angel of flesh and blood that was and disappeared. “And you were still pure and innocent while you were alive. While you are alive / courageous / special / fearless / you, that your heart was a gold heart / you are not now / you are an angel and you are not among the living. / And you, who through your eyes everything / was simpler. / And you, who made us better / Because you have removed the best of us. / But you, who were bigger than life / Taken into the clouds to A world of angels / Angel of flesh and blood / was and disappeared.
