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Rabbi stabbed in neck in E. Jerusalem terror attack
By Jonathan Lis, Haaretz Correspondent
Tags: Israel, terror, Palestinians 

A Palestinian stabbed a Haredi rabbi in the neck in Arab East Jerusalem on Tuesday, but medical workers said his wounds were light and not life-threatening.

A police spokesman confirmed that the attack, near the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City, was politically motivated.

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he Zaka emergency service said the rabbi, 49, was walking with a bodyguard in Jerusalem's walled Old City, where his seminary is located, when he was attacked. The bodyguard gave chase but the attacker escaped, leaving behind a blood-stained knife.

According to police, the unidentified assailant stabbed the man once and fled the scene. Security forces are currently searching the area in hopes of capturing the attacker.

The man was taken to Hadassah Hospital in West Jerusalem for treatment.

The Damascus Gate has been a frequent site of terror stabbings in the past.

The attack Tuesday comes less than two weeks after a Palestinian from east Jerusalem shot and killed eight Israeli students at a Jewish religious school in west Jerusalem. Since then, tensions in the city have been high, and on Sunday, dozens of Jewish extremists tried to attack the Palestinian gunman's home.

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      1.   UNARMED man targetted,sounds like a standard Pal operation 10:21  |  PETER SM 18/03/08
      2.   What goes around comes around 10:54  |  Allon 18/03/08
      3.   PETER SM 12:43  |  Malka Leifer 18/03/08
      4.   I SUPPORT ISRAEL BUT... 13:01  |  Andreas 18/03/08
      5.   Smell somthing fishy! 13:13  |  Sharif Hafez 18/03/08
      6.   It`s going to get worse before it gets better! 13:17  |  lakshmi 18/03/08
      7.   How to protect such rabbis 13:18  |  Tosefta 18/03/08
      8.   Andreas what would you call it a stabbing? 13:20  |  r 18/03/08
      9.   NAME OF RABBI? 14:44  |  SKEPTIC 18/03/08
      10.   Lakshmo - too true 14:54  |  ChanahS 18/03/08
      11.   Rabbi-with-a-bodyguard 14:57  |  whizbang 18/03/08
      12.   # 7 Tosefta......on Rabbis and trouble 15:04  |  Lynn 18/03/08
      13.   liberals are quietly happy 15:12  |  pal defender 18/03/08
      14.   Another attack related to Hesder Yeshiva 15:24  |  Tim 18/03/08
      15.   he had no right to be there 15:26  |  Raed Kami 18/03/08
      16.   Who says it was a terrorist attack 15:38  |  Paul Wood 18/03/08
      17.   Hate Crime...not Terror Attack 15:44  |  dan 18/03/08
      18.   Andreas from Denmark 15:54  |  Tex 18/03/08
      19.   Mercy to the cruel results in cruelty to the merciful 15:55  |  Dennie 18/03/08
      20.   Questions, questions (Lynn #12) 16:12  |  Tosefta 18/03/08
      21.   Please.. 16:13  |  Andreas 18/03/08
      22.   Talkback posters blaming the victim again 16:13  |  Gili 18/03/08
      23.   re. he had no right to be there 16:27  |  Axel 18/03/08
      24.   # 18 Tex...he does know about attacks 16:34  |  Lynn 18/03/08
      25.   Unhappy liberal 16:38  |  3arabi 18/03/08
      26.   # 5 these attacks aren`t all of a sudden! 16:56  |  Faoud 18/03/08
      27.   Terror attack 17:11  |  Laura 18/03/08
      28.   #17 Dan thanx for pointingout Jews instead of Israelis 17:16  |  Robert/Montreal 18/03/08
      29.   Palestinian ??? 17:19  |  lola 18/03/08
      30.   Foolish ignorant Tex 17:30  |  Mark B. 18/03/08
      31.   #29 Lola Suddenly it is Jews and not Israelis 17:33  |  Robert/Montreal 18/03/08
      32.   #22 Gili 17:34  |  Paul Wood 18/03/08
      33.   Normal operations 17:42  |  Paul 18/03/08
      34.   Same Nazism Criminal Trend 17:43  |  Respect the Jews 18/03/08
      35.   some bodyguard 17:50  |  al 18/03/08
      36.   # 20 Tosefta....LOL!!!! I did warn you 18:02  |  Lynn 18/03/08
      37.   To Sharif Hafez 18:02  |  Rory 18/03/08
      38.   32 paul wood 18:08  |  alan 18/03/08
      39.   Andreas, reaction to Danish Cartoons was not terroristic either 18:25  |  Genuine Tosefta 18/03/08
      40.   # 32 Paul Wood....such a lie 18:26  |  Lynn 18/03/08
      41.   Israel must stand up 18:27  |  Salty 18/03/08
      42.   Typical Israeli lynch mob mind set uninterested asking questions 18:28  |  Natallie Durson 18/03/08
      43.   Fishy Islam indeed smells very bad, Hafez (Al Assad? Al Wahsh?) 18:32  |  Genuine Tosefta 18/03/08
      44.   Arab East Jerusalem - Cute 18:35  |  Jack H. 18/03/08
      45.   Make of it what you will 18:48  |  sh 18/03/08
      46.   #16 Paul Wood - Flawed logic 18:59  |  Jon 18/03/08
      47.   Terrorist murder in the name of Islam. 19:25  |  Jean Van Daem 18/03/08
      48.   Nothing funny, and not difficult (Lynn #36) 19:34  |  Tosefta 18/03/08
      49.   Tosefta- Do you think you are safe in Tveria? 19:42  |  Jon 18/03/08
      50.   #32 The boot is not on the other foot 19:48  |  Gili 18/03/08
      51.   #50 Gili 20:10  |  Paul Wood 18/03/08
      52.   A fair war Iola? 20:49  |  MaryRose 18/03/08
      53.   Paul Wood et al 21:10  |  LRB 18/03/08
      54.   Tosfeta, I`d rather protect the Rabbis by... 22:00  |  Scharker Yid 18/03/08
      55.   It was not a terrorist attack 22:02  |  Javad 18/03/08
      56.   #12, Lynn. Unless by "mixed" was meant some Christian sites 22:32  |  zmogus 18/03/08
      57.   RABBIS, WOMEN, CHILDREN. THEIR USUAL PREY 22:55  |  PalestniansAreA Myth 18/03/08
      58.   JERUSALEM, THE UNDIVIDED CAPITAL OF ISRAEL 23:08  |  HISTORY 18/03/08
      59.   "Terror Attack" 23:10  |  Hussein 18/03/08
      60.   islami terrorists like targeting unarmed religious jews now 23:11  |  zionist forever 18/03/08
      61.   4 23:16  |  zionist forever 18/03/08
      62.   Unclear 23:19  |  Truth Seeker 18/03/08
      63.   Javad - a new spokesman for religion of peace 23:47  |  Rory 18/03/08
      64.   There is no risk, the Olmert regime tells us 02:58  |  Mark Lincoln 19/03/08
      65.   Do religious fanatics have a right to live? 03:02  |  Mark Lincoln 19/03/08
      66.   And should we subimit to the religously insane? 03:06  |  Mark Lincoln 19/03/08
      67.   dredfull terrorist attack 03:49  |  azriel bibliovitz 19/03/08
      68.   Oh my goodness so the murder of eight......... 04:14  |  Deborah 19/03/08
      69.   34# "Respect the Jews".This will prevent Muslems go to Paradise ? 04:18  |  Akram Zekaria 19/03/08
      70.   palestinian? 04:20  |  azriel bibliovitz 19/03/08
      71.   jerusalemAttack 04:22  |  Yaacob 19/03/08
      72.   #48 property 06:12  |  Rab Burns 19/03/08
      73.   Arm the Rabbis! 07:30