NEW HAVEN (VINnews) – — A father announced on social media Saturday night that his 22-year-old son, an American-born IDF soldier, was killed in combat in Lebanon.

Mendy Katz wrote that his son, Sgt. Moshe Yitzchak Katz, was serving in the Israel Defense Forces when he fell in battle on Shabbos.

“With unspeakable tragedy I regret to inform you that my 22-year-old son… fell in battle in Lebanon,” Katz wrote. “My heart is shattered and the wound is real.”

He described his son as his eldest child, “with a zest for life and jokes,” and said the burial will take place in Israel.

Moshe Katz, a member of the Chabad community from New Haven, Connecticut, is survived by his parents, Mendy and Devorah Katz, and siblings.

Devastated to learn that IDF Sgt. Moshe Yitzchak Katz, a young man from New Haven, Connecticut, and member of the Lubavitch community, was killed in Lebanon on Shabbas.

He was the son of Mendy and Devorah Katz.

He was the great-grandson of Rabbi Moshe Yitzchak Hecht OBM, a… pic.twitter.com/ZxPOc5vKnI

— Yaacov Behrman (@ChabadLubavitch) March 29, 2026