IDF soldier Neria Leiter was critically wounded Wednesday in a vehicular ramming attack near Beit Horon in Judea and Samaria. He is fighting for his life after continuing to serve following his brother's death in Gaza. The family has issued a public call for prayers.
IDF soldier Neria Leiter, critically wounded Wednesday in a vehicular ramming terror attack near the Maccabim checkpoint and the community of Beit Horon in Judea and Samaria, was still fighting for his life at last report, with the hospital describing an immediate danger of death. In updates The Zioneer filed Wednesday, September 23, at 17:05 Jerusalem, the medical picture sharpened rapidly: Leiter, evacuated to Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, underwent resuscitation and urgent brain surgery for an intracranial hemorrhage, followed by a complex operation lasting several hours. In the hospital's newest update, his condition had stabilized but remained very serious and life-threatening.
Corroboration built through the thread. The Zioneer reported Wednesday at 17:05 that Dr. Alon Schwartz of Shaare Zedek confirmed Leiter had undergone resuscitation and urgent brain surgery; the hospital then confirmed life-saving trauma procedures and the lengthy complex surgery. The leadership response was tracked in real time: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with the surgical team and visited Leiter before departing for the UN General Assembly in New York, and President Isaac Herzog offered public prayers for his recovery. The family and supporters renewed calls for prayer using his Hebrew name, Neria Dov ben Chana.
Neria is the son of Israel's US Ambassador Yechiel Leiter and the younger brother of Major Moshe Leiter, who fell in combat in the northern Gaza Strip early in the war; as The Zioneer reported, Neria chose to remain in uniform after his brother's death. His father, in Washington when the attack occurred, returned immediately to Israel, saying his son 'needs a miracle.' The wounding has become a national story — part of a wider toll The Zioneer has documented across Israel's communities in recent months, including similar public prayer appeals for critically wounded soldiers.
The circumstances of the attack — including the perpetrator's identity and affiliation — have not been confirmed in our reporting to date, and the investigation is ongoing. Leiter likewise remains in danger: doctors say his condition is still very serious, and his family continues to plead for public prayer.
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