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Once again Yad Hashem is quite visible to all, this time in a rock-throwing attack in the A-Tor area of the capital near Augusta Victoria on Tuesday, the first day of chol hamoed Sukkos in Eretz Yisrael. This attack, like a growing number, occurred in Yerushalayim, not in Yehuda or Shomron.
The taxi was struck with a very large stone during the early afternoon hours, entering the rear of the cab, a stone that could have easily killed or seriously injured passengers. On Rosh Hashanah 64-year-old Alexander Levlovitz HY”D was murdered in a rock-throwing attack in the Armon HaNatziv neighborhood of the capital.
B’chasdei Hashem in this case there was only light injuries to two people despite the potential for much worse. One of the injured is a tourist.
A border policeman saw the attack and chased after the attacker, apprehending the 11-year-old Arab child.
Elsewhere, a border policeman was lightly injured in a rock-throwing attack at Kever Rochel on Tuesday afternoon. In Hebron on Tuesday afternoon, a Japanese tourist was injured lightly when she was struck in her head with a rock.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem / Photos: Medabrim Tikshoret)
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When will the Israeli Government stop with the baby talk and “do what has to be done” to protect its citizens it has sworn to protect? Are they that busy/occupied trying to arrest every member of the Kahana family?
While the headline is good in its Jewish perspective, the headline lacks information as to the origin of the large stone. For all I know, a boulder fell from a mountain. The NYTimes was widely criticized for a similar headline.
A better headline would have said:
VIDEO AND PHOTOS: B’chasdei Hashem, No One Killed When Large Stone Thrown by Arabs Pierces Car Window