A dozen Israelis, civilians and police officers, also were wounded in the knife and gun attacks that authorities in Tel Aviv said were carried out by Palestinians.
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Stuart Force says his 28-year-old son was an avid skier and guitar player who loved horses and ranch life after a childhood in Texas.
Vanderbilt University student Taylor Force was a Lubbock, Texas, native and a first-year MBA student.
Taylor Force wasn’t yet sure what he was going to do when he graduated but was exploring the civilian side of life.
Vanderbilt Chancellor Nick Zeppos said in a letter to the university community that Taylor Force, 29, a student at the Owen Graduate School of Management in Nashville, Tenn., was killed during a visit geared to focus on global entrepreneurship.
Force had recently been elected a senator in the student government. “He lived really large”. He was studying at the school’s Owen Graduate School of Management.
Johnson says other students were with Force when he was stabbed to death but they were unhurt.
Force had a “really, really bright future, and to see it cut short is tragic”, Johnson said.
Force went to high school at New Mexico Military Institute and was an Eagle Scout, according to the LinkedIn page.
Luba Samri, also with Israel police, told CNN that at least four people were stabbed near the Jaffa port and another three or more were stabbed as the attacker moved north on the boardwalk, a popular spot with shops and restaurants along the waterfront. At Fort Hood, he served as as a platoon leader and fire support officer, NBC News reports.
According to military records, Force was with the 1st Cavalry Division from 2010 to 2014, becoming a captain in December 2012.
Zeppos said Vanderbilt is arranging for the other students and staff members’ return to the United States.
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“In these moments, terror attacks are taking place in streets adjacent to us”, said former Israeli President and Prime Minister Shimon Peres during a meeting with Biden at the Peres Center for Peace.
