32-year-old Jewish man is in moderate condition after being stabbed in the back with a screw driver by an Arab suspect on a central Jerusalem street near the Old City Sunday evening, police said.
According to spokesman Micky Rosenfeld, the attack took place shortly after 6 p.m. on Hanevi’im Street, where the suspect fled by foot toward Damascus Gate.
Shortly after the unidentified victim was stabbed, Magen David Adom paramedics arrived at the scene to treat the man and transfer him to Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Rosenfeld said.
Multiple road blocks have been erected in the area as police search for the suspect, he said.
The stabbing follows a spate of similar attacks that occurred on the same day last week in Tel Aviv and the West Bank, killing one woman and an IDF soldier.
On November 10, Dalya Lemkus, 26, was murdered and two others were wounded by an Islamic Jihad operative wielding a knife at the Alon Shvut junction in the Gush Etzion area of the West Bank.
The incident occurred meters away from the location where three Israeli teens — Eyal Yifrah, Naftali Fraenkel and Gil-Ad Shaer — were kidnapped and then killed in June.
A guard stationed at the entrance to the settlement shot the terrorist, seriously wounding him.
The IDF transferred the two surviving victims to the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem and Sha’are Tzedek Medical Center in the capital, where they were treated for stab wounds to the jaw and stomach.
Hours earlier in Tel Aviv, 20-year-old Sergeant Almog Shiloni of Modi’in, was repeatedly stabbed by an Arab man armed with a knife in his upper torso near Hahagana train station.
Passersby at the scene came to the assistance of the victim, pushing the suspect off of him, who then fled the area, but was found and arrested by responding officers shortly thereafter.
Shiloni, who served in the Air Force, subsequently died from his wounds.
In response, Hamas praised the stabbing on Sunday evening, and considered it "a natural response to the crimes of the occupation" according to Palestinian news site Al Resalah.
