WORLD : Attack Linked to Temple Mount
An Arab stabbed an Israeli garage owner 10 times in the chest and back in a Tel Aviv suburb today in the latest in a wave of tit-for-tat attacks after the police killings of 20 Palestinians on the Temple Mount, police said.
Shlomo Shtezi, 48, was stabbed in his auto workshop in Rishon Lezion by a former employee who had slept in the shop overnight. Israeli army radio said Shtezi is in intensive care in a nearby hospital.
The Palestinian suspect was caught by soldiers at a military roadblock as he was headed to his home in the Gaza Strip.
District Police Cmdr. Hezi Ledder told army radio that 200 Arabs were rounded up after the attack in an effort to both find the assailant and prevent revenge attacks by Israelis. They were later released.
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