Israeli man in his 70s hurt in Netanya stabbing

On Monday morning an 80-year-old woman was seriously wounded in a stabbing attack near Tel Aviv.

The woman, along with a man in his 40s and a third victim in his 20s, was knifed by a 19-year-old Palestinian man from Hebron.

According to reports, the assailant got off a bus before running down Tarmab street and Herzl Street in Rishon Lezion, brandishing a knife. On this way he first stabbed the man his 40s before moving on to the elderly woman and young man.

Bystanders surrounded him and wrestled him to the ground before cornering him in a shop as police arrived.

Rishon Lezion Mayor Dov Tzur praised the “fast work of citizens and security services, police and MDA,” and said that by the time police arrived, the terrorist had only gotten about 150m from the initial stabbing.

MDA medics Yoni Ohayon and Ophir Partenki said: “When we arrived at the scene, we saw on Herzl Street, near the bakery, a woman, about 80 years old, lying on the pavement, conscious, and suffering from a bleeding wound in her upper body. We gave her first aid and evacuated her to Assaf Harofeh Hospital in moderate to serious condition.”