Israeli man run over, Arab taxi driver pepper sprayed, as violence spreads

Marcy Oster

JERUSALEM (JTA) —  An Israeli man was run over and seriously injured in what is suspected of being an intentional attack.

The man, between the ages of 50 and 60, was seriously hurt Monday afternoon in the hit and run in the eastern West Bank. He was airlifted to a central Israel medical center with severe head injuries.

The Israel Defense Forces began pursuing the vehicle that hit the man between the settlements of Migdalim and Ma’aleh Ephraim.

The attack came hours after a Palestinian woman stabbed an Israeli civilian at the main junction in Gush Etzion.

Also Monday afternoon, an Arab taxi driver was attacked with pepper spray in central Jerusalem by a Jewish man who fled on foot.

Meanwhile, two Jewish teens were arrested Monday for a second attack on the Max Rayne Hand In Hand Jerusalem school in which they hung banners with Anti-Arab epithets on the schools exterior walls. The school was set alight and vandalized with spray painted anti-Arab slogans late on Saturday night.