The widow of Pinchas Pashwazman, a dual American Israeli citizen who was killed by a Hamas rocket fired at Ashdod in May of this year, gave birth to a baby boy at Sourasky Medical Center in Tel Aviv overnight Monday.
Pashwazman was one of five Israelis killed in the last serious spike in violence between Israel and Hamas, which saw hundreds of rockets fired at southern Israel and beyond. On May 5, a double volley of dozens of rockets was aimed at Ashdod. Two rockets were not intercepted and landed in the area. Pashwazman was seeking shelter but was not able to find cover in time, suffered a direct hit, and died.
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He was survived by his pregnant widow and toddler son.
Pashwazman was the son of Rabbi Chaim Dov Pashwazman, an important member of the Ger hassidic sect in Beit Shemesh. One of his uncles, Mordechai Yehuda Friedman, was killed in a suicide bus bombing in 2002.
Haredi news outlets reported that the baby's circumcision ceremony will likely be held at the Ger yeshiva in Jerusalem, and the Gerrer rebbe, Rabbi Yaakov Aryeh Alter, will be named godfather.
