A 25-year-old Jordanian male was shot and wounded on Erev Shabbos after attacking a female motorist in her 20s along Route 90 in the Kinneret area. The woman was attacked with rocks, resulting in her losing control of her vehicle, running into the guardrail. B’chasdei Hashem she was only lightly injured in the attack and accident.

According to the official IDF statement, the attacker is “mentally unstable” and he crossed into Israel from Jordan and began attacking motorists with rocks along Route 90.

Reports add the suspect then ran over and tried pulling the woman from her vehicle. Passersby intervened and the suspect was shot, listed in moderate-to-serious condition.

The assailant was transported to Poriah Hospital in Tiveria. The woman was taken to the same hospital.

Officials are probing the attack, which is viewed as an attempted kidnapping.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)