A yeshiva student was stabbed to death in Jerusalem while on his way to pray at the Western Wall. Police blamed Palestinian militants. Meanwhile, in the West Bank settlement of Eli, a settler shot and killed a Palestinian who had stabbed him in the chest, slightly wounding him.
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