Old City
Associated Press | 03.18.08
JERUSALEM - An Israeli rabbi was stabbed by an Arab assailant on Tuesday at a gate to Jerusalem's Old City, police said.
Israeli rescue services said the rabbi was stabbed in the neck and was hospitalized with moderate wounds. The attacker escaped, police said.
The rabbi is a teacher at Ateret Cohanim, a Jewish seminary in the Old City's Muslim Quarter, police spokesman Shmuel Ben-Ruby said. Ateret Cohanim is affiliated with hardline Jewish settlers who are buying up property in Jerusalem's Arab areas.
The attack Tuesday came less than two weeks after a Palestinian from east Jerusalem shot and killed eight Israeli students at a Jewish religious school in west Jerusalem before he was killed by an off-duty soldier. Since then, tensions in the city have been high, and on Sunday, dozens of Jewish extremists tried to attack the home of the gunman's family.
The Palestinians want to establish a capital in east Jerusalem, which Israel annexed after capturing it in the 1967 Mideast war.
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