The IDF Failures That Led to a Soldier's Tragic Death in Lebanon, and Drove His Family Out of Israel

It is early morning in the fields of Nir Banim, a moshav in south-central Israel. A few early risers jog along the paths; a farmer in an off-road vehicle heads out to his fields. Every so often, a helicopter passes overhead, heading toward Gaza. A metallic rasp from the community's cemetery breaks the rural idyll. Ron and Maayan Kehati sit beside a mound of stones, watching a friend, on all fours, carve the Hebrew letters gimel, vav and resh into a stone. This is the grave of their son Gur, a Golani Brigade medic killed at age 20 in southern Lebanon in November 2024, during Israel's war with Hezbollah.

The IDF Failures That Led to a Soldier's Tragic Death in Lebanon, and Drove His Family Out of Israel

Messages, testimonies and footage expose the scale of IDF negligence that led to the death of medic Gur Kehati, sent into Lebanon to accompany a civilian researcher | A Haaretz investigation