Recent widow of slain soldier gives birth to baby girl

The widow of slain IDF soldier Sgt.-Maj. Bayhesain Kshaun gives birth to a baby girl in Beersheba’s Soroka Medical Center.

The baby is the Kshauns’ fourth child.

“The birth was easy, but he is sorely missed. Every day is another day he won’t come back, his voice isn’t heard. He very much looked forward to this birth. He knew we would have a girl. It’s very hard for me, there’s no one to call, no one to send messages to, it makes it more painful that he’s not here,” Mrs. Kshaun tells the Walla news website.

Sergeant-Major Bayhesain Kshaun, 39, was a combat soldier in the Northern Gaza Territorial Brigade. He died on Monday, July 21, when an antitank missile was fired at forces responding to terrorists infiltrating into Israel.

His widow says her husband, who worked for the IDF, would wake up at 4:00 a.m. to go to work, and he loved what he did despite the risks involved. She says she is naming the baby Tal-Or, which translates to Dew-light — the first for the time of day he would leave home, the second because he fell in broad daylight.