Yitzhak Ben-Bashat

Yitzhak Ben-Bashat was born in 1979 in Halamish

Yitzhak Ben-Bashat was born in 1979 and grew up in Neve Tzuf. He studied at the Bnei Akiva yeshiva in Nehalim and at the Keshet Yehuda pre-military academy.

He joined the Golani Brigade and was accepted into the Egoz unit, where he became a team commander after officers training. He later commanded a support company in Battalion 51, held command posts in the Shaldag unit, and became deputy commander of Egoz. During Operation Protective Edge he briefly replaced the wounded unit commander, Yonatan Rom.

In 2015 he took command of the Golani Reconnaissance Battalion, and from 2016 to 2018 he was a team commander at the Tactical Command College. In 2018 he was promoted and given command of the Sagi Brigade, which was replaced by the Paran Brigade under his command. From 2021 to 2023 he commanded the Yiftach Brigade.

He was retiring from the army when the attack of 7 October 2023 began, and he helped rescue civilians in Kibbutz Be'eri. He then volunteered to lead the forward command post of the Golani Brigade commander in Gaza. He was killed with 9 other soldiers in Shuja'iyya on 12 December 2023, and was survived by his wife Adar and 4 children.