On September 23, Neria Leiter, son of Israel's ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter, sustained life-threatening injuries when a Palestinian man drove a vehicle into a military checkpoint in the occupied West Bank. A Palestinian assailant was shot dead at the scene; Leiter is a reserve soldier fighting for his life as of September 25.
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Israeli reports identified Neria Leiter, son of Israel’s ambassador to the U.S. Yechiel Leiter, as the victim of a suspected vehicle-ramming attack near the Mevoim checkpoint in the West Bank.
Neria, the son of Israel's ambassador to the U.S., Yechiel Leiter, is the reservist fighter who was severely injured in today's truck-ramming terror attack Leiter’s elder son, Moshe Yedidya Leiter, was killed fighting in Gaza in Nov 2023 in the first weeks of the war. www.cnn.com/2026/09/23/w... The son of Israeli Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter was critically injured in a ramming attack in th
Israeli reservist Neria Leiter, the son of Israel’s ambassador to the United States, was critically injured Wednesday, September 23, when a car struck a joint police-military patrol at the Maccabim checkpoint on Route 443 near Beit Horon, west of Ramallah. Israeli police said the patrol was conducting vehicle searches when the driver accelerated toward it. Israeli forces shot and killed the driver
Israeli forces kill a Palestinian after an alleged West Bank car-ramming seriously wounds the son of Israel's ambassador to the US Israeli forces kill a Palestinian after an alleged West Bank car-ramming seriously wounds the son of Israel’s ambassador to the US.
Israel's ambassador to the United States said Thursday that his soldier son was fighting for his life after a Palestinian attacker rammed his car into him at a checkpoint in the occupied West Bank. Ambassador Yechiel Leiter also lashed out at French President Emmanuel Macron for focusing on settler violence in his address to the UN General Assembly this week.
Neria Leiter, a reserve soldier, sustained life-threatening injuries after a Palestinian man drove into a military checkpoint in the West Bank, the Israeli military said.