Family names son of woman slain in terror attack while on way to deliver baby

The baby of Tzeela Gez, the 30-year old woman who was killed in a deadly terror attack last week, was named this morning in a special ceremony at the Gez family home in the West Bank settlement of Bruchin where Tzeela’s family is still observing the seven-day mourning period for her.

The baby boy is named Ravid Haim, a name Tzeela had chosen, a statement on behalf of the family says.

The ceremony was conducted in the presence of close family friends, the rabbi of Bruchin Meir Hilowitz, and the head of the Samaria Regional Council Yossi Dagan. Psalms were sung at the conclusion of the ceremony for Ravid Haim, and the family requested the public pray for the baby’s recovery “who is in need of much mercy from Heaven,” the statement says.

Performing the traditional Brit Milah circumcision ceremony, which is when baby boys are usually named. was not possible since Ravid Haim remains in the hospital in serious condition.

Gez was driving the hospital with her husband Hananel to give birth when she was shot by a Palestinian terrorist near the Palestinian village of Bruqin.

Gez succumbed to her wounds in hospital but the baby was delivered by emergency C-section.