Four Israeli Jews injured in knife attack

Ezra Schwartz, a 2015 graduate of the Maimonides School.

Israel’s Haaretz newspaper reported, that a few Israeli companies who have factories in the settlements decided not to wait for the European Union’s decision and relocated their plants to within the Green Line. “My thoughts and prayers go out to the family and friends of Mr. Schwartz”, Blumenthal said.

West Bank cities have many smartphone users and a burgeoning high-tech industry, but Palestinian carriers have been forced to make do with 2G data bandwidth.

The State Department statement said that on his trip, starting Sunday, Kerry will talk about “stopping violence in Israel, Jerusalem and the West Bank”.

Seeking more understanding from around the world for Israel’s security challenges, he added: “Whoever condemned the attacks in France must condemn the attacks in Israel”. But it has struggled to contain the seemingly spontaneous attacks. It was not clear why the American was in Israel.

The attack took place in the Panorama building on Ben Tzvi Street in southern Tel Aviv on Thursday afternoon. One of his bloodied victims staggered into a room where others were praying. We were in shock.

Eyewitness Shimon Vaknin said the prayer service had just started when a man covered in blood fell on a number of worshipers.

“We managed to close the doors and he tried to force them open”.

The building houses stores and offices and had been cordoned off by police after the attack. The military said soldiers shot at the attacker, although his condition and identity were unknown.

“Behind these terrorist attacks stands radical Islam, which seeks to destroy us, the same radical Islam that struck in Paris and threatens all of Europe.” he said.

In the Gaza Strip, dozens of young men headed to the borderline area between eastern Gaza Strip and Israel, and threw stones at the Israeli army forces stationed there, according to eyewitnesses.

One of the dead was the American, identified as Ezra Schwartz in a tweet by Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld.

Kerry last met with Netanyahu in Berlin in October to try to end a spate of bloodshed and stop what Washington regarded as provocative statements by Israeli and Palestinian leaders over the management of Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa mosque.

It accused the movement of “continuous incitement to violence and racism” and said the party has led “a campaign of lies and incitement” by accusing Israel of plotting to take over the Jerusalem holy site at the heart of the current round of violence.

The attacks have Israelis on edge.