The American was identified as Taylor Force, 28, a first-year M.B.A. student at the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt, the university said in a statement. He was one of 29 students from the graduate school on a trip to Israel to learn about global entrepreneurship, according to a news release from Vanderbilt. The rest of the students, as well as the four faculty and staff members that accompanied them, were safe, it said.
“A Palestinian terrorist murdered an American citizen, Taylor Force, tonight in Jaffa,” Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu said on Twitter. “May his memory be a blessing.”
In a statement on Tuesday night, John Kirby, the State Department spokesman, said: “We offer our heartfelt condolences to the family and friends of Taylor and all those affected by these senseless attacks.”
According to his LinkedIn profile, Mr. Force had served as an Army officer from 2009 to 2014, including tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. He was a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point.
“We have just been notified, and we have no details about anything,” said Mr. Force’s father, Stuart, when reached by telephone.
On Tuesday evening, Mr. Biden was at the Peres Center for Peace in Jaffa, a serene seaside district that adjoins Tel Aviv, when a Palestinian man ran down a popular boulevard attacking groups of people, witnesses said.
A video shot by a witness and posted on YouTube by Haaretz, the Israeli newspaper, showed a thin man wearing a hoodie running down the Jaffa promenade, lunging at passengers in passing vehicles. An unseen person could be heard yelling in Hebrew, “Terrorist! Terrorist!”
The American was identified as Taylor Force, 28, a first-year M.B.A. student at the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt, the university said in a statement. He was one of 29 students from the graduate school on a trip to Israel to learn about global entrepreneurship, according to a news release from Vanderbilt. The rest of the students, as well as the four faculty and staff members that accompanied them, were safe, it said.
“A Palestinian terrorist murdered an American citizen, Taylor Force, tonight in Jaffa,” Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu said on Twitter. “May his memory be a blessing.”
In a statement on Tuesday night, John Kirby, the State Department spokesman, said: “We offer our heartfelt condolences to the family and friends of Taylor and all those affected by these senseless attacks.”
According to his LinkedIn profile, Mr. Force had served as an Army officer from 2009 to 2014, including tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. He was a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point.
“We have just been notified, and we have no details about anything,” said Mr. Force’s father, Stuart, when reached by telephone.
On Tuesday evening, Mr. Biden was at the Peres Center for Peace in Jaffa, a serene seaside district that adjoins Tel Aviv, when a Palestinian man ran down a popular boulevard attacking groups of people, witnesses said.
A video shot by a witness and posted on YouTube by Haaretz, the Israeli newspaper, showed a thin man wearing a hoodie running down the Jaffa promenade, lunging at passengers in passing vehicles. An unseen person could be heard yelling in Hebrew, “Terrorist! Terrorist!”
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