An American business student was killed and as many as 10 people were wounded in a stabbing attack at the Jaffa port just south of Tel Aviv.
Taylor Force, a student at the Vanderbilt University Owen Graduate School of Management, was on a school trip to Israel when he was killed on March 8. He and other Vanderbilt students were in Israel to learn about the high-tech industry there.
Force’s wife was one of four people seriously wounded in the terror attack, which went on for some 20 minutes.
Police said the assailant was “neutralized.” He was later identified as a 22-year-old man from the Palestinian city of Kalkilya in the northern West Bank.
Earlier in the day, near the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem’s Old City, a man on a motorcycle opened fire on Border Police officers before being fatally shot during a police chase. He was identified as a 25-year-old Palestinian man from eastern Jerusalem with no security-related record.
One of the injured officers was near death, according to Israeli reports.
The Damascus Gate has been the site of several terror attacks in recent months.
In Petah Tikva, the assailant in a stabbing attack at a convenience store was stabbed to death with his own knife by the victim, according to media reports. The attacker was identified by the Israeli media as an Arab man. — jta