Israeli police believe that a Jewish extremist may have been responsible for Wednesday’s stabbing death of a 41-year-old Palestinian father of six in eastern Jerusalem. Police are investigating links between the killing and six previous stabbings of Arabs, one of them fatal, that began late last year in a fervently Orthodox neighborhood in Jerusalem.
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