Yehuda Sherman, an 18-year-old settler activist who was killed on Saturday in circumstances still being investigated by security services was laid to rest in the settlement of Elon Moreh on Sunday, in a funeral attended by many hundreds of mourners as well as several senior politicians.

Sherman, a resident of the illegal settlement outpost of Shuva Yisrael Farms in the northern West Bank, was killed on Saturday afternoon when the ATV he was traveling in was hit by a Palestinian vehicle.

The police and IDF have said they are examining whether the incident was an accident or a terror attack, although Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and other settler activists have already described the incident as “murder” and a terror attack, without waiting for the official findings.

The 18-year-old was eulogized by his father, Yehoshua Sherman, and others, including the rabbi of Elon Moreh, as having been a sacrifice of the Jewish people towards the goal of establishing Jewish settlements in the West Bank and thwarting the creation of a Palestinian state.

In his eulogy for his teen son, Yehoshua, a longtime activist in Smotrich’s Religious Zionist party, called on the government to abolish the 1993 Oslo Accords and vowed to continue his son’s work by establishing new illegal settlement outposts in the West Bank in the coming days.

Following the eulogies from family members, Smotrich also addressed the funeral, vowing that he was working to “collapse” the Palestinian Authority and assert full Israeli control over the West Bank.

Sherman was killed when the ATV he was traveling in with his brother Daniel was hit by a pickup truck driven by a local Palestinian man.

Daniel, who was injured in the incident, alleged on Sunday morning that the vehicle deliberately sped up to hit their ATV and rammed them off a cliff. The IDF and the police have yet to determine the nature of the incident, however, and have not confirmed Daniel’s account.

Shuva Yisrael Farms is an illegal farming outpost inhabited by a handful of young settler activist families and young men, like Yehuda........

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