Staff-Sergeant-Major (res.) Shlomo Yehonatan Hazut was killed in battle while fighting in the Gaza Strip, the IDF announced on Sunday.
Staff-Sergeant-Major Hazut, 36, from Ashdod, served in Battalion 9207 in the 16th Brigade.
Hazut fell in the central Gaza Strip.
The military said that in the same incident, a reserve soldier was severely wounded. He was transferred to hospital for further medical treatment.
Soldiers killed since beginning of war
According to the IDF's tally, the death of Staff-Sergeant-Major Hazut raises the total of soldiers killed on or since October 7 of last year to 702.
Some 338 of this number were killed since the start of the military's ground operations in the Strip on October 27.