{"id":40816,"date":"2026-03-29T04:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T04:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/40816\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T04:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T04:05:10","slug":"idf-soldier-from-new-haven-killed-in-lebanon-father-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/40816\/","title":{"rendered":"IDF Soldier From New Haven Killed In Lebanon, Father Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:Daily Voice;\" href=\"https:\/\/dailyvoice.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"Daily Voice\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"264\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/491775a0-81c5-11f0-9efb-babb779dc17b.png\"\/><\/a>Sun, March 29, 2026 at 2:21 AM UTC<img alt=\"Moshe Yitzchak\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1242\" height=\"828\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/5337cbf7beaecf85592e44700c9972bc.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Moshe Yitzchak \u2014 Facebook via Mendy Katz<\/p>\n<p>A Connecticut father says his 22-year-old son was killed amid the tensions in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>Mendy Katz posted on social media that his son, Moshe Yitzchak, a sergeant in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) &#8220;fell in battle in Lebanon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My oldest son&#8230; with a zest for life and jokes,&#8221; his father said.<\/p>\n<p>A burial has been scheduled for Sunday, March 29.<\/p>\n<p>Israel expanded their ground operation in Lebanon in an effort to dismantle Hezbollah&#8217;s military infrastructure, according to an Axios\u00a0report\u00a0earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My heart is shattered, and the wound is real,&#8221; Katz continued. &#8220;May he be a malitz yosher for only good things.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sun, March 29, 2026 at 2:21 AM UTC Moshe Yitzchak \u2014 Facebook via Mendy Katz A Connecticut father&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[4681,1663,93,17436,5461,17437,1048],"class_list":{"0":"post-40816","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lebanon","8":"tag-facebook","9":"tag-israel-defense-forces","10":"tag-lebanon","11":"tag-mendy-katz","12":"tag-military-infrastructure","13":"tag-moshe-yitzchak","14":"tag-social-media"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116310489504721316","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}