On the left: Tzeela Gez, who was shot dead while in a car with her husband in the West Bank, as they were driving to hospital to give birth in May 2025. On the right: Hananel Gez holding his son, Ravid Chaim, who died two weeks after the terrorist attack. Photo: Screenshot

The infant son of Tzeela Gez, an Israeli mother of three who was fatally shot in a terrorist attack in the West Bank while on her way to give birth, died Thursday morning after two weeks in intensive care.

On May 15, Gez and her husband, Hananel, were on their way to the hospital to deliver their baby when a Palestinian terrorist opened fire on Israeli vehicles, critically wounding the pregnant mother and injuring her husband.

After the attack, the 30-year-old woman was quickly transported to Petah Tikva’s Rabin Medical Center in critical condition. Despite doctors’ efforts to save her, she was pronounced dead the next morning.

According to the hospital, Gez’s husband, who was driving the car, sustained minor injuries after his condition was initially reported as serious.

Doctors managed to deliver the baby, Ravid Chaim — a name Tzeela had chosen before the attack — via emergency C-section, but he had already suffered severe oxygen deprivation.

Despite intensive medical care, his condition remained critical, and he never regained full consciousness. After fighting for his life for more than two weeks, Ravid was pronounced dead Thursday morning at Schneider Children’s Medical Center.

Last week, Hananel described his son’s condition as being “between life and death” in an interview with Israel Hayom.

Shortly after the attack, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced an intensive search for the terrorist who fired on multiple vehicles, with Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir vowing to bring the perpetrators to justice.

About a week after Tzeela was murdered, the IDF confirmed that it had eliminated the killer, Nael Samara, during a counter-terrorism operation near the Jewish community of Bruchin in the northern West Bank.

In a post on X, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar shared the tragic news of Ravid’s death, while criticizing the international community for ignoring the terror attacks against Israeli settlers.

“Jews living in Judea and Samaria [the West Bank] are the most attacked population in the world by terrorism. Despite this, too many in the international community prefer to speak about ‘settler violence,’ instead of the terror against settlers,” the top Israeli diplomat said.

Tzeela Gez was brutally murdered while on her way to the hospital to give birth.
Doctors fought for the life of Ravid Chaim, her newborn baby, for two weeks. Tragically, he did not survive.
He passed away today.
Jews living in Judea and Samaria are the most attacked population… pic.twitter.com/hWiVx0FreS

— Gideon Sa’ar | גדעון סער (@gidonsaar) May 29, 2025

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed “great sorrow and pain” upon hearing the tragic news.

“There are no words that can comfort the murder of a newborn baby along with his mother,” the Israeli leader said in a post on X. “The heroism of the pioneers of settlement in Judea and Samaria, and their dedication is what will defeat all our enemies. Earth does not cover their blood.”

בצער ובכאב גדול התבשרנו הבוקר על מותו של התינוק רביד חיים, בנה של צאלה הי”ד וחננאל גז.

אין מילים שיכולות לנחם רצח של תינוק בן יומו יחד עם אימו.

גבורת חלוצי ההתיישבות ביהודה ושומרון ומסירות הנפש שלהם היא זו שתביס את כל אויבינו.

“ארץ אל תכסי דמם”.

— Benjamin Netanyahu – בנימין נתניהו (@netanyahu) May 29, 2025

Israeli President Isaac Herzog said he spoke with Hananel, whom he praised as “a true Israeli hero,” to offer his support and solidarity.

“The entire people of Israel embrace him in his difficult time and pray that he finds comfort and solace together with his children and the entire family. May their memory be blessed,” Herzog said in a post on X.

תנחומים מעומק ליבי לחננאל גז ומשפחתו על מותו של התינוק רביד חיים ז״ל – שהוצא מרחם אימו צאלה ז״ל שנרצחה בפיגוע אכזרי סמוך לברוכין לפני כשבועיים, כשהייתה בדרכה לחדר הלידה. כמה התפללנו שרביד הקטן יוכל להשתקם ולחיות עם משפחתו האוהבת.

ביום שישי האחרון שוחחתי עם חננאל, גיבור ישראלי…

— יצחק הרצוג Isaac Herzog (@Isaac_Herzog) May 29, 2025

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Gal Gadot at the 82nd Annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California on Sunday, Jan. 5, 2025. Photo: Dan MacMedan-USA TODAY via Reuters Connect

Gal Gadot’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles, California, has been defaced with antisemitic graffiti the same week that London’s Metropolitan Police arrested five anti-Israel protesters trying to disrupt the filming of her new movie in central London.

Metropolitan Police said five people were arrested at a location in Westminster on Wednesday for targeting Gadot’s film set “solely because an actress involved in the production is Israeli.” Protesters have disrupted the filming of Gadot’s latest project in various locations across London in recent weeks, police added. The Israeli actress and mother of four is believed to currently be filming action thriller “The Runner.”

“The five people were arrested for harassment and offenses under Section 241 of the Trade Union and Labors Relations Act, which deals with wrongfully and unlawfully obstructing access to a workplace,” authorities said on Wednesday. Two of the arrests were related to incidents at previous protests while three arrests were connected to disruptions that took place on Wednesday. The arrested individuals remain in custody.

“While we absolutely acknowledge the importance of peaceful protest, we have a duty to intervene where it crosses the line into serious disruption or criminality,” said Superintendent Neil Holyoak. “We have been in discussions with the production company to understand the impact of the protests on their work and on any individuals involved. I hope today’s operation shows we will not tolerate the harassment of or unlawful interference with those trying to go about their legitimate professional work in London.”

The 40-year-old actress has expressed support for Israel amid the country’s ongoing war against Hamas terrorists who orchestrated the deadly attacks across southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. The native of Petah Tikva, in central Israel, has also called for the release of the hostages abducted by the US-designated terrorist organization during the Oct. 7 onslaught.

At a film set last week in London, Gadot, 40, was escorted away from the location as anti-Israel protesters waved flags and yelled “Stop bombing Palestine,” according to the Daily Mail.

Gadot stars in “The Runner” as a high-powered attorney who runs around London, following cryptic order of a mystery caller, while trying to save her abducted son, according to IMDb. The film, from Amazon MGM Studios, is directed by Kevin Macdonald with a script by Mark Gibson.

Anti-Israel protesters also tried to disrupt Gadot’s Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony in March, when she became the first Israeli to be given a coveted star administered by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce. Photos shared this week on social media showed that Gadot’s star was vandalized with “Baby Killer” written in black ink. Vandals also crossed out Gadot’s last name and replaced it with “Greestien” – a reference to her father’s former surname Greenstein – and attached a sticker that falsely claimed Israeli snipers “target children.” The graffiti was removed last night by two Israelis, according to a post shared on X.

Gal Gadot’s Hollywood star was vandalized last night and hateful libels were scribbled on it.

Brainless antisemitic scum as we know it! pic.twitter.com/ZQyKc8Pfee

— Cc00l Memukad الاغتيال المستهدف (@Cc00lM) May 28, 2025

During an interview for the March 2025 issue of Spanish Harper’s Bazaar, Gadot said she longs for the Israel-Hamas war to end with a “diplomatic agreement that allows all parts of the table to live a good and prosperous life.”

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Pro-Hamas protesters at the Deering Meadow section of Northwestern University’s campus in Evanston, Illinois, United States, on April 25, 2024. Photo: Kyle Mazza/NurPhoto via Reuters Connect.

Antisemitism remains palpable and severe at Northwestern University over one year after President Michael Schill signed the “Deering Meadow Agreement” which granted pro-Hamas demonstrators a windfall of concessions they had demanded in exchange for ending an unauthorized encampment, parents and students told The Algemeiner in a series of interviews.

The 2023-2024 academic year was unlike any seen in the history of American higher education since the 1960s. Following the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, massacre across southern Israel, colleges across the US erupted with effusions of antisemitic activity, which included calling for the destruction of Israel, cheering Hamas’s sexual assaulting of women as an instrument of war, and several incidents of assault and harassment targeting Jews on campus.

This held true at Northwestern University, where the Jewish experience was remade by the forces of anti-Zionism and the administrators who allegedly yielded to it. On April 25, 2024, the Northwestern Divestment Coalition (NDC) — a group of pro-Hamas activists linked to National Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) — commandeered the Deering Meadow section of campus and established what they called the “Northwester Liberated Zone.” For five days, over 1,000 students, professors, and non-Northwestern-affiliated persons fulminated against the world’s lone Jewish state.

The encampment dwellers argued that Israel is committing a genocide of Palestinians in Gaza as retaliation for the Oct. 7 attacks while questioning the severity of Hamas’s atrocities — or denying them altogether. Northwestern University, they added, is complicit for holding investments in armaments and aerospace manufacturers which do business with Israel, a fact which they said necessitated that the school “boycott” and “divest” from the Jewish state.

“There were signs everywhere,” Lisa Fields, who was on campus at the time and founded the Coalition Against Antisemitism at Northwestern (CAAN), told The Algemeiner. Fields is the parent of a Northwestern student whose emotional phone call during the middle of the demonstration prompted her to fly from her home in New York City to the university’s campus in Evanston, Illinois. What she saw there disturbed her.

“There was a Hitler sign and another depicting Schill with horns, just to mention some of the antisemitic tropes on display there,” Fields recounted. “The protesters were loud, aggressive, and banging on things. It was impossible to walk through the campus. None of the student attending class could focus because you could hear everything inside the classrooms.”

Northwestern University police attempted to uproot the protesters, who had pitched tents on the Deering Meadow, after Schill placed an “interim addendum” in the code of conduct which proscribed setting up the temporary shelters on school property. They were unsuccessful, however, as the protesters, faculty included, formed a “human blockade” to block their advance into the space. An impasse followed for the next four days in which NDC raised $12,000 and students staged “artistic performances,” delivered speeches, and appealed to the public for more money and support.

Meanwhile, Schill and a group of NDC delegates were busy hammering out a settlement which would end the demonstration and restore a semblance of normalcy to campus. By the morning of April 29, they reached what would infamously be remembered as the “Deering Meadow Agreement” — a first of its kind accord which became a model for 42 other schools who emulated it. It committed Northwestern University to establishing a scholarship for Palestinian undergraduates, contacting potential employers of students who caused recent campus disruptions to insist on their being hired, hiring two Palestinian professors, and creating a segregated dormitory hall to be occupied exclusively by Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) and Muslim students. The university — after days of hearing the activists shout phrases such as “Kill the Jews!” — also agreed to form a new investment committee in which anti-Zionists students and faculty wield an outsized voice.

Not a year later, Northwestern claimed to have turned a corner. On March 31, amid US President Donald Trump’s confiscations of federal funds from higher education institutions deemed soft on antisemitism or excessively “woke,” the university issued a progress report containing a checklist of policies it said were enacted in response to Schill being upbraided by members of Congress over his handling of the Deering Meadow crisis.

Among other things, the university said that it had adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism, a reference tool which aids officials in determining what constitutes antisemitism, and began holding “mandatory antisemitism training” sessions which “all students, faculty, and staff” must attend. The so-called progress report’s most controversial assertion boasted that antisemitic incidents on the campus have fallen by 88 percent.

Geri Cohen, another Northwestern parent and member of CAAN, had heard it all before in a meeting with Schill that was held during move-in weekend 2024, the first time Cohen would drop off her daughter, who was then an incoming freshmen, at the university. During the meeting, she and other parents, many of whom are also CAAN members, were regaled with speeches proclaiming Northwestern’s regard for its Jewish community and its foolproof plans to prevent another surge of pro-Hamas activity.

According to Cohen, however, Schill was most comfortable engaging with parents when they refrained from asking tough questions. Cohen did not, and her inquiries perturbed him, as they proceeded from the premise that the Deering Meadow Agreement canceled out any policies the university might enact to plausibly claim that it is combating antisemitism.

“He is a profound legal mind, so he knew exactly what I was asking, and he was defensive about the line of questioning,” Cohen told The Algemeiner. “He just pointed to the mandatory antisemitism training, offering a veneer of a reasonable explanation which fell short of saying anything real. I pushed him a little bit, asking follow up questions when he insisted that there is no issue, but he deftly avoided being cornered.”

Schill’s equivocations, Cohen said, primed her for news that was revealed earlier this month by the Washington Free Beacon. Per the Deering Meadow Agreement, Northwestern University hired at least one Palestinian professor, Mkhaimar Abusada — but, as reported by the Free Beacon, Abusada holds ties to both Hamas and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) through his memberships in two groups which cooperate with the US-designated terrorist organizations and award their fighters leadership positions.

“At the end of the day, we all knew that they made the deal and that they were hiring these professors,” Cohen said, commenting on the report. “I’m not surprised whatsoever about who they hire, what they believe, who funds them, what other organizations to which they are linked — all of that was already in my head when I decided to let my daughter make her own decision about where she was going to go in this world.”

Fields concurred.

“The problems at Northwestern are deep. Deep and institutional,” she said. “And what makes it so interesting a case study in campus antisemitism is that it isn’t a calm campus like Vanderbilt, but it also did not see the fires which raged at Columbia, Harvard, and UCLA. But what happened there was unique and worse because of the precedent that was set and the lesson Northwestern taught the community when it decided to surrender to the radical people who took over the Deering Meadow everything they wanted. And Schill would do it again. He is proud of that deal.”

Northwestern University students also tell a story that is at odds with what the institution believes about itself.

“The university has done a great job covering up the actions of its students, and that is my perspective as a Christian and a student leader. I personally have not seen a reduction in antisemitic incidents,” pre-law student Jeanine Yuen told The Algemeiner. “One example I can think of is a Jewish student who was punished for peacefully counter-protesting a pro-Palestinian walkout and picket on the anniversary of Oct. 7. The university said he violated time and place policies, but none of the pro-Palestinian protesters who did so too were punished, and the university blamed the inconsistency on its being unable to identify the protesters, who were masked.”

Additionally, according to a new Spring Campus Poll conducted by The Daily Northwestern, the school’s official campus newspaper, 58 percent of Jewish students reported being subjected to antisemitism or knowing someone who has. An even higher 63.1 percent said antisemitism remains a “somewhat or very serious problem.” Only weeks earlier, during the Jewish holiday of Passover, someone graffitied Kregse Hall and University Hall with hateful speech calling for “Death to Israel” and an “Intifada,” alluding to two prolonged periods of Palestinian terrorism during which hundreds of Israeli Jews were murdered. The vandals also spray-painted an inverted triangle, a symbol used to express support for the terrorist group Hamas and its atrocities.

In April, the Trump administration expressed its skepticism of a quick turnaround at Northwestern by impounding $790 million of its federal funds. As of the publication of this article, they have not been given back.

“We have received 98 stop-word orders, mostly for Department of Defense-funded research projects, in addition to 51 grant terminations that were mostly received prior to the news of the funding freeze. In addition, we have not received payments for National Institutes of Health grants since March. These now appear to be frozen,” Schill said in a May 1 statement addressing the government’s funding cuts. “This is deeply troubling, and we are working in many ways to advocate on behalf of the university and to resolve the situation.”

Northwestern University did not respond to a request for comment for this story.

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