From Jerusalem Post Breaking News from Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World Aug. 24, 2005 20:50 Updated Aug. 26, 2005 0:15 By ETGAR LEFKOVITS ...
A massive police manhunt was underway Thursday for an Arab man who stabbed 21-year-old British yeshiva student Shmuel Mett to death and seriously wounded a classmate with a large kitchen knife in a terror attack in Jerusalem's Old City.
...The Wednesday night attack came just a day after Israel completed its pullout from the Gaza Strip and four West Bank settlements. The assailant fled the scene, after hurling the 30 cm long knife on the ground.
The joint police-Shin Bet manhunt for the suspected Arab terrorist gathered steam Thursday after it was determined that the attack was caught on police surveillance cameras positioned in the Old City, with the assailant believed to be hiding somewhere in Jerusalem, security officials said.
The two victims of the stabbing attack, who studied at the city's Mir Yeshiva, were rushed by Magen David Adom paramedics to Hadassah University Hospital at Ein Karem and Jerusalem's Sha'are Tzedek Hospital. Mett died on the operating table in the intensive care unit of Hadassah Hospital just over an hour later, having never regained consciousness.
Mett came to Jerusalem from Britain to study about a year and a half ago. Rabbi Binyamin Carlebach, head of the Mir Yeshiva, related that he would get up every morning at 4:00 to study. He was engaged several months ago and was planning to marry in three months.
Mett is also survived by two brothers and a sister, residing in Israel.
...At the site of the attack, a small memorial was set up. Nearby, vandals scrawled anti-Arab graffiti and calls for revenge. The Jerusalem stabbing was the second in the capital in just over a month. Last month, a 30-year-old Israeli who was sitting with his girlfriend at a popular Jerusalem promenade was stabbed in the foot by an Arab assailant who remains at large.
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