A recent Columbia graduate and Connecticut native is the latest victim in a wave of violence in the West Bank. Elan Ganeles shot Monday while driving on the highway near Jericho. alecia__reid spoke to friends remembering him Tuesday night.
- A recent Columbia graduate and Connecticut native is the latest victim in a wave of violence in the West Bank.
A vigil at Columbia University honored Elan Ganeles, a sustainable development and neuroscience double major who graduated last May.The 27-year-old was killed Monday night in the West Bank, near the Palestinian city of Jericho. A representative from the Israeli Consulate says he was driving when two Palestinian terrorists pulled up to his car and opened fire.
"Fourteen Jews have been murdered in Israel over the last month by Palestinian terrorists," Israeli Consulate spokesperson Itay Milner said.Described as loyal, down-to-earth and funny, Ganeles was in Israel to attend a friend's wedding. "His parents, two physicians, just with a love towards other people that carried on to Elan and his two brothers," one speaker said at Tuesday's vigil.
Elan Ganeles was a New Yorker. His loss is a tragedy. His generation deserves a world free of terror, a world where we stand up in the face of hate and reject the forces who divide us.
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