Sergeant first class (res.) Shay Uriel Pizem fell in battle in Gaza on Friday morning, the IDF announced.
Pizem, age 23 from Kibbutz Ein Hanatziv, was a tank commander in Battalion 9 of the 401st Brigade, and fell in battle in southern Gaza.
Pizem was the father of a three-week-old infant daughter.
His funeral will be held at 9:30p.m. on Saturday night, in the civilian cemetery in Kibbutz Ein Hanatziv in northern Israel.