Erez Gerstein (Hebrew: ארז גרשטיין; March 13, 1960 – March 2, 1999) was an Israeli Brigadier General (Tat Aluf) who commanded the Israel Defense Forces Lebanon Liaison Unit and died in the South Lebanon conflict (1985–2000) with Hezbollah and Lebanese proxy militias.

[2] Gerstein was drafted into the IDF in 1979, and volunteered for the Shayetet 13 naval commando force, but was dismissed after a year, and did his military service in the Golani Brigade.

In the 1982 Lebanon War he served as a platoon leader in the reconnaissance company and fought at the Battle of the Beaufort.

[4] On March 2, 1999 Gerstein and two Israeli soldiers, Warrant Officer Imad Abu-Rish and Staff-Sergeant Omer El-Kabetz, had been accompanying Kol Israel reporter Ilan Roeh during a brief foray into South Lebanon in an armored vehicle.

[6][7][8] In February 2018, the "Al-Manar" network released a video allegedly showing the explosion that killed Gerstein.