3 Israelis killed in terrorist attacks during Palestinian ‘day of rage’
(JNS.org) Palestinian terrorists killed three people and wounded many others in a series of attacks in Jerusalem and central Israel on Tuesday, which was declared a “day of rage” by Palestinian groups.
In Jerusalem, two Palestinian terrorists boarded a bus, one armed with a knife and the other with a gun, and attacked the passengers, killing at least two people and injuring 17 others. One of the assailants was killed and the other was apprehended by security forces.
Minutes later, another terrorist rammed his car into people waiting at a bus stop in the center of Jerusalem, then got out and began stabbing pedestrians. The terrorist, a resident of eastern Jerusalem and an employee of Israel’s Bezeq phone company, was killed shortly thereafter.
Two additional attacks took place in the central Israeli city of Ra’anana. The first was a stabbing at a bus stop on the city’s main road. The victim was lightly wounded, and was able to subdue his attacker and hold him. Four people were hurt in the second stabbing attack, in a commercial center in the city. The attacker, a sanitary worker at a nearby hospital, was apprehended.
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Cleveland Clinic, Hebrew U team on health care incubator; target $15 million
(Cleveland Jewish News/JNS.org) The Cleveland Clinic and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem plan to form the Center for Transformative Nanomedicine, a virtual incubator designed to lead to breakthroughs in health care. The idea is to marry research skills available at the clinic to the nanotechnological work for which The Hebrew University is known.
The potential innovations, various institutional spokesmen suggests, could trigger a sea change in health care delivery—and cures for illnesses that at present seem intractable. The alliance took form over little more than a year, and a fundraising effort with an initial target of $15 million began Oct. 12.
“The way patients are treated today hasn’t really changed a lot in many years,” Dr. D. Geoffrey Vince, chair of the department of biomedical engineering at the clinic’s Lerner Research Institute, told the Cleveland Jewish News Oct. 7.
Currently, he said, “There’s no way of really targeting a particular drug to a particular disease or type of cancer. With nanotechnology, we have ways of administering doses of potentially harmful drugs to specific sites without any real side effects. Whatever we inject in a patient’s arm won’t be released until it reaches its target, which is exciting from a medical standpoint….From a collaboration standpoint, we’re really getting in on the ground floor. Not many places have the capability of doing this.”
The driver of the partnership is Victor Cohn, a retired real estate developer and member of the board of American Friends of The Hebrew University. Cohn said Oct. 9, “I was so impressed by Hebrew University’s development of nanotechnology that I wanted to connect the university with a Cleveland hospital and research center working on developing drug delivery through nanotechnology….I realized that great things would happen if I helped to make this incomparable alliance.”
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Nazareth’s Arab mayor slams Arab Knesset members for ‘ruining coexistence’
(JNS.org) The Arab mayor of Nazareth, Ali Salem, harshly criticized Arab Knesset members for “ruining coexistence” with Israel for their roles in ongoing violent demonstrations.
“I blame the leaders. What is happening is not appropriate,” Salem, who heads the largest Arab municipality in Israel, told Israel’s Army Radio on Sunday. “It is just ruining our future, ruining our coexistence.”
Several MKs from the Joint Arab List political party have been involved in organizing and leading protests against Israel, including a demonstration in Nazareth last Thursday that turned violent. Salem said he saw Joint Arab List chairman MK Ayman Odeh at that protest and told him to leave.
“I said to him, get out of here—I don’t need to see you in Nazareth,” said Salem.
In another interview, while Salem said he disapproved of Israel’s actions on the Temple Mount holy site, he criticized Israel’s Arab leaders for their approach to the issue.
“We need to find a way to live together. We cannot fight like this. We are damaging ourselves,” Salem told Israel’s Walla news website.
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13-year-old Israeli boy stabbed while riding bicycle in Jerusalem
(JNS.org) A 13-year-old Israeli boy was stabbed Monday by two Palestinian teenagers as he rode his bike in the northern Jerusalem neighborhood of Pisgat Ze’ev.
According to Israeli police, the two Palestinian terrorists, ages 13 and 15, were cousins from the Beit Hanina neighborhood in eastern Jerusalem. The older attacker was shot dead by police after fleeing the scene, while the younger assailant was hit by a car and seriously injured.
The Israeli victim, who suffered multiple stab wounds to the upper body, was brought to Hadassah Hospital on Mount Scopus, where he underwent emergency surgery. While doctors were able to save his life, the boy remains in critical condition.
A 25-year-old Israeli man was also wounded during the attack, which was the third terror attack of the day in Jerusalem. Earlier, a 17-year-old Palestinian terrorist from eastern Jerusalem was shot dead while attempting to stab a police officer, while an 18-year-old Palestinian woman stabbed a Border Police officer outside of police headquarters on Ammunition Hill.
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