Courageous action by a quick-thinking driver averted possible tragedy Monday after a Palestinian terrorist stabbed a teen- age boy at a bus stop in northern Jerusalem.
Ami Messika jumped from his car and pursued the attacker after hearing shouts of “terrorists, terrorists” from a boy and two women running down a road in the French Hill section of the city.
The 15-year-old boy, stabbed by a man shouting “Allahu akhbar (Allah is great),” sustained a slight shoulder wound. The assailant was identified as a resident of Ramallah in the West Bank.
Messika, a gardener, warned the attacker that he would shoot, although he had no weapon with him. He then knocked the terrorist down. The terrorist reached for his own gun just as a second passerby joined the fray, helping Messika hold the man down until police came.
The attack occurred at the site of a recent fatal shooting of a border policeman by a terrorist.
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