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| Jewish Man Stabbed, Another Beaten In East Jerusalem |
| 2014-11-22 |
| [IsraelTimes] A Jewish man was stabbed in the back and another was beaten with a metal bar in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of At-Tur Friday as they walked among of group of people headed for Friday evening prayers at a nearby yeshiva. The incident was first reported as a suspected terror attack but police later said it began as an altercation between the group of Jewish youths and a group of Arab youths, which then deteriorated into a brawl. Border Police forces who arrived at the scene dispersed the fight, but did not make any arrests. The forces then escorted the Jewish youths to the yeshiva, according to a police statement. "A group of Jewish worshipers were attacked as they walked...to Beit Horot," a police statement said earlier, referring to the yeshiva set up on the Mount of Olives by right-wing rabbi Benny Elon in 1999. Magen David Adom paramedics said a man, 24, was evacuated to Shaare Zedek Hospital with a cut on his back and a 21-year-old man sustained head injuries. Police were sweeping the area for the perpetrators. The attack came three days after five Israelis were killed in a terror attack at a synagogue in the capital's Har Nof neighborhood. Four of the victims were shot and hacked to death while at prayer while the fifth victim, a Druze policeman who tried to stop the killings, was shot in the head and later died of his wounds. |
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