A new immigrant from the former Soviet Union was killed and three other olim were wounded Friday by a knife-wielding Arab in Kfar Sava, a grim reminder that the intifada still goes on.
Genia Friedmann, 42, who arrived in Israel only six weeks ago, was fatally stabbed while shopping. Her father, Yitzhak Gudiss, 65, was wounded.
The assailant, Yussuf Abd el-Rahman, 20, of the nearby West Bank town of Kalkilya, also slightly wounded Dr. Larissa Patrikov, 41, and her husband, Dr. Yevgeny Patrikov, 39, both unemployed gynecologists from the former Soviet Union.
Rahman was shot and seriously wounded by an Israel Defense Force soldier who protected him from an enraged Jewish mob until the police arrived.
The young Arab told police later that his intention was “to kill Jews” to avenge the arrest of his brother at a police roadblock the previous day.
The Palestinian branch of the fundamentalist Islamic Jihad claimed, however, that it had ordered the stabbings to avenge the death in southern Lebanon of Sheik Abbas Musawi, leader of the Shi’ite fundamentalist Hezbollah, who was killed Feb. 16 in an IDF precision attack on his motorcade.
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