US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman on Friday asked on Twitter, "What has become of Haaretz? Four young children are sitting shiva for their murdered father and this publication calls their community a 'mountain of curses.' Have they no decency?"

Itamar Ben Gal, a 29-year-old father of four, was killed in a terror attack earlier this week at the entrance to Ariel. The terrorist is an Israeli Arab from Jaffa.

The Ben Gal family lives in the town of Har Bracha, which literally means "a mountain of blessings."