Gal Eisenkot, the son of Israel’s war cabinet minister and Former IDF Chief Gadi Eisenkot, was killed in Gaza, this week.
Master-Sgt. Gal Meir Eisenkot, the son of war cabinet minister and former IDF chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot, died in northern Gaza on Thursday, the Jerusalem Post reports.
Eisenkot, 25, died in battle. He was a reservist infantry fighter in the 699th battalion, in the 551st reserve brigade.
In a eulogy for his son, Gadi Eisenkot said, «In a conversation about the war in Gaza, you told me that you and your comrades in the company feel that this is a just war. That we must return all the hostages and defeat Hamas.»
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Yitzhak Herzog, and Speaker of the Knesset Amir Ohana were among the high-profile mourners at Eisenkot’s military cemetery in Herzliya.
