— Israeli security forces Wednesday detained two suspects in Tuesday’s attack on a yeshiva student in Hebron’s downtown market-place. The student, David Koch, 22, was on his way from the Tomb of the Patriarch to the building which once housed the Hadassah hospital when he was stabbed by two assailants who then fled from the scene. Koch was taken to a hospital in Jerusalem where he was treated and released. An immediate curfew was imposed on the Hebron area. Dozens of merchants and other residents were questioned and released later in the day.
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