Ben Gilbert and Shmuel. He was born in Ashkelon on December 4, 1970. He was born in Ashkelon and was educated in the Yeshurun elementary school and the Yigal Allon High School, a shy and quiet boy who is always surrounded by friends. He played soccer with a team of soccer players, and played weekly matches with various teams, and as the years went by, Ilan became a cute youngster, enjoying frequent recreation at sea, swimming and playing on the beach. In 1985, at the age of fifteen, his father died of a serious illness and Ilan, the youngest son, was left alone with his mother after his brother At the end of December 1988, Ilan was drafted into compulsory military service in the Israel Defense Forces, and after completing basic training, he was drafted into a military service, He was posted as a transport driver in the Armored Corps. Was a good soldier, quiet and disciplined, who did his work faithfully and was admired by his commanders and friends. On the 3rd of Nissan 5749 (3.5.1989), at the Masmiya junction, when he made his way from his unit to his home in Ashkelon for a happy holiday, Ilan was kidnapped when he boarded a Subaru vehicle. Between Hodaya Junction and Givati Junction, they shot him to death, buried his body in a waste disposal site in the Palmahim area and fled to the Gaza Strip. Two days later, the stolen Subaru was discovered with blood stains. A curfew was imposed on the Gaza Strip and Sheikh Yassin was arrested and in his interrogation he claimed that he had no information about Ilan’s burial place. About two months after the murder, the Hamas organization in Beirut presented Ilan’s soldier’s certificate and in September 1991 the organization’s spokesman announced a false statement that Ilan was being held in their hands and expressed In March 1996, after seven years of fruitless interrogation, during which Ilan’s mother and sister met with Sheikh Yassin in an attempt to extract a piece of information about Ilan’s burial place, a turning point occurred in the investigation of a senior Hamas operative, The place where Ilan’s body was buried in the Palmahim area, where construction of a new road began, and the road was dismantled and excavated The remains of his body were discovered on the afternoon of August 11, 1996. On the 17th of Av 5756 (12.8.1996), Ilan was laid to rest in the military section of the Ashkelon cemetery, leaving his mother, seven sisters, , Rosette, Claudine, Nurit, Ariela, Yardena and Zehava, and two brothers – Charlie and Shimon – Ilan was promoted to corporal after finding his body. From the words of his niece, Yafit: “Ilan, seven and a half years ago, you were kidnapped from us, but the hope that you will always return was in our hearts … We thought maybe you were wounded,
