An Arab youth stabbed and seriously wounded an approximately 20 year-old Jewish man in Jerusalem's Ramot neighborhood on Saturday, in what police believe was a nationalistically motivated attack.
The victim, reportedly a yeshiva student, was taken to Hadassah University Medical Center in Jerusalem's Ein Kerem where he was undergoing surgery for his wounds.
Police forces in helicopters were in pursuit of the attacker, who was suspected to have fled to the nearby village of Beit Iksa.
Last Wednesday, an IDF force from the Kfir Brigade prevented a stabbing attack by a Palestinian woman in her twenties in the West Bank Gush Etzion settlement bloc.
The Palestinian woman had brandished a knife and run towards Israeli soldiers and civilians, screaming "Allahu Akhbar" and "Death to Jews," Channel 10 reported. Soldiers detained the woman and she was subsequently arrested. No injuries were reported in the incident.
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Firefighters battled fires at the Gilon Junction and the Ahihud forest on Saturday afternoon, after successfully extinguishing two fires that had broken out earlier that day and one on Friday.
More than twenty fire-related incidents have broken out over the weekend despite the absence of strong winds or burning sunlight, leading the police to suspect arson, according to Army Radio.
According to Amir Levi, a firefighting service commander, "There is a suspicion of arson in some of the fires that broke out yesterday and today in the Galilee."
Ten firefighting crews and all water-dropping planes available were summoned to the Gilon Junction to put out the fire, while one crew was sent to the Ahihud forest.
Earlier on Saturday, firefighters succeeded in extinguishing fires near the Birha military base and between the Ahihud Junction and Barlev industrial area.
Saturday's events follow a previous fire on Friday afternoon. Firefighters successfully gained control over it after the fire had burned 200 dunams in the Western Galilee.Twenty firefighting crews were assisted by JNF-KKL authorities and water-dropping planes in putting out the blaze.
Dozens of residents from Kibbutz Yasur and elderly residents of a local retirement home were evacuated. Four people were treated by Magen David Adom and evacuated to hospital with light injuries from smoke inhalation.
