Teharlev
Man slain in vehicular attack was Golani combat soldier
Sgt. Elchai Teharlev, 20, of the West Bank settlement of Talmon was killed by a Palestinian terrorist one year his senior at a bus stop near Ofra on Thursday morning. His mother is a psychologist, and his father is a rabbi and educator who supports religious female enlistment to the IDF.
Twenty-year-old Sgt. Elchai Teharlev of the Golani Brigade’s 13th Battalion was murdered in the vehicular attack carried out on Thursday morning in the West Bank.
The combat soldier was from Talmon, a West Bank settlement near Ramallah. He had been standing behind the bus stop nearby Ofra when 21-year-old Malak Hamed struck him and another man with his car. The other man, a 19 year old, was lightly wounded.
Elchai Teharlev
The terrorist's car after the attack (Photo: AP)
Teharlev was a corporal at the time of his death. As is standard in the IDF, he was posthumously promoted one rank immediately after his death. His funeral was scheduled for 6:30pm on Thursday in Israel’s national cemetery on Mount Herzl.
His father, Rabbi Ohad Teharlev, is the head of MIdreshet Lindenbaum, a Jewish educational institution in Jerusalem. He is one of the leading rabbis who encourage religious women to enlist in the IDF. His mother, Avital Teharlev, is a psychologist.
Teharlev is also survived by six siblings. He studied in yeshiva one year behind Gil-Ad Shaer, one of the three teenage boys who was kidnapped and murdered in 2014.
(Translated and edited by J. Herzog)
