He was murdered in a terrorist shooting on Sunday morning at the Ein Raya spring, where he had gone with his eldest son, Yoav, 16, to immerse ahead of Yom Kippur.

Mere hours before the holy day of Yom Kippur started, and after immersing himself in a mikveh, Netanel Shakron was shot and killed by a Palestinian terrorist who was later captured alive at a Ramallah hospital by IDF special forces.