Air force on high alert, artillery, infantry and armored units boosted along northern border as IDF evaluates situation; Chief of staff cancels trip to NATO summit in Europe.
Eight people were still in hospital on Wednesday, hours after a Palestinian man from the West Bank city of Tulkarem stabbed commuters on a Tel Aviv bus and passersby in the street during rush hour, including three who were left in serious condition.
European Commission Vice-President Frans Timmermans said ‘’we have the moral and political duty to bring about a situation as soon as possible where not one Jew in Europe feels the urge to leave Europe because he or she sees no future fo them on this continent’, in an address to a memorial ceremony at the EU Jewish building in Brussels for the 17 victims of the recent terrorist attacks in Paris.
Islamist gunman Amedy Coulibaly who killed four Jews in a hostage-taking in a kosher supermarket in Paris on January 9, had targeted a Jewish school in the French capital’s district of Montrouge where the terrorist shot dead a police officer two days earlier.
A 23-year-old suspected Palestinian terrorist stabbed at least ten people on the 40 bus line in Tel Aviv near the Maariv Bridge junction on Wednesday morning.
PA President makes remarks after meeting in Ramallah with visiting Prime Minister Shinzo Abe who announced that Japan would donate $100 m. to help reconstruct Gaza.
''We did not expect the outcome in terms of the stature of those killed - certainly not the Iranian general,'' Reuters quotes Israeli source as saying.
Israel urged Argentine authorities to carry on with the work of prosecutor Alberto Nisman who was found dead in his Buenos Aires flat after having alleged a cover-up in the investigation of Iran over the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community centre which killed 85 and wounded 200.
