Ben Rivka and Rami. He was born on 28 March 1979 in Jerusalem, to Dorit, Galit and Michal. Already as a baby he was very alert, handsome and full of curiosity and joy of life. Erez studied at the Ramot Aleph State High School and at the Himmelfarb High School in the Beit Midrash class, where he graduated with honors from the army, and began to train for military service. Ezra was one of the most active activists, and he was a regular participant in trips, trips and summer camps, while Erez served as an instructor in the movement, invested in his apprentices and deeply impressed them. And society, love of the land and love of man. At that time, Erez turned more to Torah study. It was therefore natural that he chose to study in the framework of the Torah program of the Atzmona pre-military academy in Gush Katif, where he studied for a year and a half. It soon became clear that the Mechina had lit up his life and made him happy and ecstatic. The combination of religious studies, faith, social cohesion, love of the place, and studies in partnership with friends and rabbis added to Erez a significant dimension in the construction and shaping of his personality. He loved that place so much that even during his army service he would divide his spare time between staying at home and sitting on the benches of the Beit Midrash in Atzmona. In November 1998, Erez enlisted in the IDF in the ‘Egoz’ unit of the Golani Brigade, and in the military service he saw the essence of real life, A true work that stems from the depths of the soul for the people of Israel, for the sake of the Land of Israel and its integrity, and for every citizen in it, his special character, his heart, his good heart, his desire to help all, his volunteering for every mission and above all his uncompromising honesty, High to serve in the IDF and at the end of basic training he was chosen as an outstanding soldier, a ‘divisional model’. The soldiers arrived at the Bezeq base. After about two months they moved to the “Peles” base for further basic training and advanced training, at the end of which they boarded the unit and began their career as future fighters in the Egoz unit. Erez went out with his unit to a line in Lebanon at the Eisiya outpost. After four months he went to an officers’ course, where he was assigned command of a sniper team in the Egoz unit, and at his request he was transferred to the training base of the Golani Brigade, And was appointed commander of a team in the Reconnaissance Company of the “Egoz” unit, and Erez’s aspiration was to command and nurture the young soldiers, and Erez saw education as a mission and the young recruits for the future generation. Erez was exemplary and role model in his military role, but especially as an educator who takes his path seriously, wisely and honestly, and In his brief vacations he used his time for classes and for acts of charity and kindness, and his commander in basic training describes how Erez was standing before me. All of them so that he could pray and make sure that everyone stood up and worked on the weekend seder and helped his friends to carry out their missions, that God forbid there would be no situation in which people worked and he did not help. The evening before Erez fell, there was a swearing-in ceremony at the Golani JunctionThe new recruits, and Erez, gave each one of them the Bible and the personal weapon – “Safra and Sefa descended from the sky.” Such was the man who, despite his youth, left behind a great moral legacy. On Thursday, December 28, 2001, Erez fell in a training accident at the Peles base in the Jordan Valley and was brought to eternal rest in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, leaving behind his parents and three sisters And was promoted to lieutenant at the age of twenty-two.
