Elan Ganeles was one of three civilians killed by jihadists this week. The editors of the New York Sun comment:
The funeral . . . in Israel of Elan Ganeles is a moment to reflect on the intimacy in which America and Israel—and our city—are linked. An American graduate of Columbia University, Ganeles, a native of Connecticut, according to wire and other reports, was killed [on Monday] by terrorists who shot him at close range. The terrorists then burned their car and fled on foot to Jericho, which is governed by the Palestinian Authority.
Ganeles had attended the Hebrew Academy at West Hartford and was graduated from the Hebrew High School of New England. While a student at Columbia, according to the wires and other reports, he worked as a geospatial analyst at the university’s Center for International Earth Science. He’d served in the IDF for two years and was living at Manhattan. He’d returned to Israel for a friend’s wedding, only to be shot while in a car.
Yet we note that the murder has received scant coverage in the press, whose focus has fallen away from the human dimension of the terror attacks in Israel.
Thousands attended Ganeles’s funeral in the city of Ra’anana, many if not most of whom had not known him personally.
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