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Israeli Ambassador's Son Critically Injured in West Bank Attack
Shaare Zedek said Neriya Leiter remains in extremely serious condition after several hours of brain surgery, and doctors are still fighting to save his life.
- Reservist Neriya Leiter remains in critical condition following a car-ramming terror attack at the Maccabim checkpoint on Route 443, where an IDF force killed the assailant at the scene.
- The Leiter family previously lost another son, Maj Moshe Yedidya Leiter, who was killed in northern Gaza on Nov. 10, 2023, while serving as a company commander in the 551 Brigade's 697 Battalion.
- On Thursday, Israeli Ambassador Yechiel Leiter stated at Shaare Zedek Medical Center that his son's life remains in danger, though his condition stabilized following complex brain surgery.
- Amid the ongoing medical crisis, a granddaughter was born to one of Leiter's daughters overnight, treated in the same hospital 40 meters away from Neriya.
- Despite his brother's death, Neriya regarded reserve service as an enormous privilege, and his father requested the public continue reciting Psalms and praying for his son's recovery.
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Too long a sacrifice
Hearing of the critical injuries sustained by the son of Israeli Ambassador to the United States Yechiel Leiter yesterday, I thought of Yeata’s lines from the poem “Easter 1916” — “Too long a sacrifice / Can make a stone of the heart.” The sacrifice of the Israelis is certainly too long, and yet the hardening of the heart is not in evidence. Leiter is the father of eight children. His oldest son was Major Moshe Leiter. He was killed in Gaza in 2…
His older brother died in combat in the Israeli offensive that led to the Hamas massacre of October 7, 2023.
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