Ambassador’s Son Critically Injured in West Bank Attack

Neria Leiter, the son of Israel’s ambassador to the United States, was critically injured Wednesday in a vehicle-ramming attack at a checkpoint near Beit Horon in the occupied West Bank, and the driver was shot and killed at the scene, according to authorities and regional reports. Leiter was taken to Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, where his father said doctors were fighting to save his life. Police said the vehicle struck a patrol car occupied by a policewoman and an Israeli soldier on a joint mission along Route 443. The reports identify Neria Leiter as an Israeli reserve soldier. No independently verified account of the attack’s precise sequence or the driver’s intent was provided. The Palestinian Ministry of Health identified the deceased driver as 29-year-old Mahmoud Muhammad Mahmoud Suleiman, from the nearby village of Beit Ur al-Tahta, and said he was shot at the scene. Police also said security forces killed the driver there. Ambassador Yechiel Leiter said in a social-media post that he was grateful to the medical team and appealed for prayers for his son.