Parents who took soldier son's sperm after he was killed fight to make grandkids

Daily Star

A married couple who retrieved their son’s semen shortly after he died in combat are asking the government to make it legal for them to use it to become grandparents.

Israeli soldier St.-Sgt. Amit Ben Yigal was killed during an arrest raid in the Palestinian West Bank village of Yabad two years ago.

His father, Baruch Ben Yigal, said he had retrieved his son’s sperm shortly after he died.

“Amit, my son, was a hero,” Ben Yigal told The Jerusalem Post.

“He was a soldier in Sayeret Golani [an elite combat corps], and he fell during operational activity. When it happened, we thought that the terrorist not only killed Amit, but he prevented us from becoming grandparents.”

“Amit was my only son,” he said. “The terrorist stopped me from being a parent, but I do not want him to stop me from being a grandparent.”

Ben Yigal said his son “really wanted to be a father. He wrote about it. He spoke about it.”

The grieving dad said he has the names and contact information of 182 women from across Israel who want to be the surrogate mother. He said the only…