Tuesday, November 11, the entire country froze in front of the image of the funeral of the young Israeli soldier Hadar Goldin, whose body was finally returned by Hamas, eleven years after his kidnapping in the Gaza Strip. But that morning, Hadas Levy, 35, had only one worry: helping her baby go back to sleep. For five months, this boy – whose first name he doesn’t want to keep secret – has been his lifeline. “I decided to do everything to have children from my late partner, in the midst of grief, and that is what saved me,” confided the young woman, at the beginning of the interview she gave us from her home located 10 km from the Dead Sea.
Hadas Levy gives hope to many bereaved families, with the birth in June of a baby conceived from the sperm of her fiancé, reserve captain Netanel Silberg, who was killed in Gaza in December 2023. This is the first child resulting from the post-mortem insemination of a soldier who died in battle during the war that began after October 7, 2023. “In my misfortune, I was very lucky,” recalled the pediatrician who works at the Hadassah hospital in Jerusalem.
