{"id":446327,"date":"2026-05-17T14:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T14:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/446327\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T14:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T14:37:08","slug":"baby-named-for-fallen-soldier-during-the-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/446327\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby named for fallen soldier during the funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" album=\"true\" data-v-753a4075=\"\" data-v-45890e8d-s=\"\">While at Mount Herzl, family and friends parted from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.israelnationalnews.com\/news\/427157\" target=\"_blank\" data-v-753a4075=\"\" data-v-45890e8d-s=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Captain Maoz Israel Recanati<\/a>, who fell during combat in southern Lebanon, at his hometown of Itamar, a brit (circumcision ceremony) was being held. <\/p>\n<p data-v-753a4075=\"\" data-v-45890e8d-s=\"\">During the ceremony, Daniel Haimovitz named his newborn son &#8220;Maoz Yehuda,&#8221; after Recanati.<\/p>\n<p data-v-753a4075=\"\" data-v-45890e8d-s=\"\">Rabbi Hananya Rachel, a rabbi at the local yeshiva where the brit took place, shared the touching story on Facebook and added: &#8220;&#8216;Live despite your blood! Live despite your blood!&#8217; An eternal nation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-753a4075=\"\" data-v-45890e8d-s=\"\">Captain Recanati, aged 24 from Itamar, a Platoon Commander in Golani Brigade 12th Battalion, fell in combat in southern Lebanon on Saturday in a Hezbollah explosive drone strike<\/p>\n<p data-v-753a4075=\"\" data-v-45890e8d-s=\"\">Maoz was engaged to Rani and was set to marry her in about a month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While at Mount Herzl, family and friends parted from Captain Maoz Israel Recanati, who fell during combat in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[208764,208763,52762,67948,6209,85,46,208762,43],"class_list":["post-446327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-brit","tag-brit-milah","tag-circumcision","tag-fallen-idf-soldiers","tag-fallen-soldiers","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-itamar","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}