Stabbing, Vehicular Ramming, Injure Four, One Critically

JERUSALEM, Israel – Following weeks of relative quiet, two terror attacks against Israelis started the week off: a stabbing near the Lion's Gate in Jerusalem's Old City and a car ramming at a checkpoint near Ramallah.

Police apprehended the 18-year-old Palestinian who stabbed a 60-year-old ultra-Orthodox man in the back near the Lion's Gate in Jerusalem's Old City. The terrorist, who dropped his knife at the scene of the attack and fled, was hiding in a nearby alley. Under questioning, he confessed to the stabbing.

On Tuesday, three soldiers were injured, one critically, in a car-ramming attack at a checkpoint near the community of Dolev in Samaria. The critically injured soldier is sedated and on a respirator in the intensive care unit at the Sheba Medical Center at Tel HaShomer in Ramat Gan near Tel Aviv. The other two remain hospitalized at Jerusalem's Hadassah Ein Kerem Medical Center.

Israeli forces at the checkpoint responding to the imminent threat fired toward the assailant, resulting in his death.