A man killed in a terror attack near Jericho in the West Bank on Monday has been identified as Israeli-American Elan Ganeles.
Ganeles, 27, was shot to death while driving near the West Bank city of Jericho amid an outbreak of violence between Israelis and Palestinians in the territory.
Ganeles was raised in West Hartford, Connecticut, where his family belonged to the Young Israel of West Hartford synagogue and he attended Modern Orthodox schools.
At the Hebrew High School of New England, he was an honors student and volunteered with the local Jewish Family Services, according to an article published about him in 2014.
At the time, he said he was deferring enrollment at the University of Michigan, and enlistment in the US military, to spend a year in Israel.
That time in Israel stretched beyond a year, and he enlisted instead in the Israel Defense Forces, serving as a computer programmer. He then returned to the United States in 2018 to attend Columbia, where he graduated in 2022 with a degree in sustainable development and neuroscience, according to his LinkedIn account.
