About a thousand people arrived today (Wednesday) at the old cemetery in Ra'anana for the funeral ceremony of Ilan Ganels who was murdered in the shooting attack in the north of the Dead Sea on Monday.
The parents of 27-year-old Ganels arrived in Israel early in the morning from the United States, where the family lives in the city of West Hartford in the state of Connecticut.
They are expected to return there tonight, and sit on it seven times, there.
The rabbi of the community even came from Connecticut, but being a priest he delivered his eulogy outside the cemetery fence, and his words were broadcast over loudspeakers.
Ganels, who intended to immigrate to Israel, recently graduated from the prestigious Columbia University and was on a trip to Israel.
On his last day, he walked with his brother in the Bahá'í Gardens in Acre and the Hexagonal Pool in the Golan, he dropped his brother off at the Beit Shan train station and from there continued to a friend's wedding.
Many in the crowd cried when his father Andrew said Kaddish over him.
The parents Carolyn and Andrew, followed by the brothers Simon and Gabriel, told about a young man who was curious from the dawn of his childhood, very intellectual and intelligent, with so many interests that he had difficulty choosing the academic path that would suit him and so he chose the path for two degrees at the same time, a passionate Zionist who chose to become a citizen of Israel so that he could serve full time in the IDF Mainly, all the speakers emphasized how sociable he was, how many his friends were and how central he was in the lives of each of them.
Ganels served voluntarily in the IDF and graduated last May.
He was shot dead by terrorists on Monday at the Beit Arava intersection near Jericho, in an attack that involved several scenes.
Another vehicle was hit by the terrorists' fire - but its occupants were not injured.
Since the attack, the security forces have been hunting for the terrorists - and today, the day of Ganels' funeral - they were arrested near Jericho.
Ilan Ganels (photo: documentation on social networks according to Section 27 A of the Copyright Law)
"No one will raise a hand against a Jew in the Land of Israel," said the representative of the government, the Minister of Heritage Rabbi Amichai Eliyahu, at the funeral. walk around in it."
"Detestable terrorists murdered you, Ilan, but all of us together, as we are here together, will be strong together in the face of terrorism," said Rishon the eulogist, one of the funeral organizers, "in these days and at these hours, bad winds of disunity are blowing in our beloved country, but we have all gathered here with you, Ilan And you are the Ganels family and no one asked what your opinions are, whether you are right or left for or against the reform."
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