Yechiel Leiter

Thank you for mentioning President Macron.

I think that his speech was... huge shame and I will tell you why he said that Hamas that there are not that there are not doing anything against the Jewish community in Judea and Samaria now less than 24 hours after his ridiculous speech ridiculous I repeat it was a ridiculous speech a terrorist attack, you know, the son of our ambassador, Yechiel Leiter, the Israeli ambassador.

How is he doing? How is the son? He's stable, but we need to continue to pray for him.

That's horrible to happen.

That

was Ambassador Leiter's other son, right? And then the second one now is fighting for his life.

We have to pray for the ambassador.

He's wonderful.

Over the course of the war, I would publish major interviews.

We call them weekend interviews at the Wall Street Journal with Prime Minister Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yisrael Katz, Foreign Minister Gideon Saar, Israeli ambassador to the US, Yechiel Leiter, and even Israeli historian, Benny Morris.

And so I was speaking to all these people, their staffs, and I think from their point of view, they want to tell the real story of what's happening and not the sort of anti-Israel propaganda that is flooding all of our social media feeds and so much other media.

And so to be able to speak to reporters who are aiming at the truth, but at the same time are not totally hostile to them, that sounded like a good deal.

And that is one of the reasons why so many Israeli soldiers have been killed.

And you've heard You've heard current ambassador to the United States, Yechiel Leiter, say over and over again that his son Moshe was killed because he went into a booby-trapped building that could have otherwise been bombed from the sky, except for the fact that Israel goes out of its way and puts its soldiers in harm's way, as opposed to using tools that might have increased the amount of collateral damage.

You brought up

Moshe Yedidiah Leiter, a blessed memory.

He was killed fighting in Gaza in November 2023, the son of Yechiel Leiter, Israel's ambassador to the U.S. And now, unfortunately, is another one of his sons, Nariah Leiter, was wounded seriously, critically.

He's fighting for his life in a Jerusalem hospital after a terrorist attack, a car ramming this past Wednesday at the Maccabim checkpoint, an area lighter serving as a policeman, also has done many, many days of reserve duty.

And the family's asking for prayers in this horrible terrorist attack here.

It looks like the first miracle already happened that he successfully was stabilized in surgery.

The son of Israel's ambassador to the U.S., Neria Leiter, was seriously wounded in a car-ramming terrorist attack on Wednesday.

Ambassador Yechiel Leiter shared on xslash Twitter that his son's life is still hanging in the balance.

Though he noted encouraging signs and expressed gratitude for prayers and support, he described Neria and his friends as heroes fighting for the future of civilization.

Neria later, an IDF reservist, is being treated at Shah Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem.

Thanks for having me.

Amit, before we get into the questions, there was this horrendous news yesterday regarding an Israeli soldier in critical condition, who is the son, Neriah Leiter, the son of Israeli ambassador to Washington, Yechiel Leiter.

You and I spoke late afternoon yesterday when you and I were both getting the word about this.

I was actually supposed to meet with Ambassador Leiter yesterday, but obviously had to cancel, and, um, he let me know he had to dash back to Israel.

But can you tell us a, maybe a little bit about the family and then what actually happened yesterday and why the story is attracting the attention of so many of us?

So Yechiel Leiter has been in Netanyahu's entourage for the last thirty years.

He worked when he was the head of the opposition who fought the Oslo Accords in the nineties.

Then his advisor in the treasury ministries at the beginning of the century.