Two Israelis Killed in Car-Ramming, Stabbing Attack

A Palestinian man from the West Bank killed two Israelis in a car-ramming and stabbing attack in northern Israel on Friday, authorities said, in what police described as a rolling terror incident that began in the city of Beit Shean and extended toward the nearby city of Afula.

The attack unfolded in the afternoon when the suspect rammed his vehicle into a 68-year-old pedestrian in Beit Shean, a city in the northern Jezreel Valley near the West Bank border. The victim, identified by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as Shimshon Mordechai, died at the scene. The assailant then drove onto Road 71 near Kibbutz Ein Harod, where he stabbed a 17-year-old girl who was attempting to hitchhike near a bus stop. Netanyahu named her as Aviv Maor, who was also pronounced dead by paramedics from Israel's Magen David Adom emergency service. A 16-year-old boy sustained minor injuries in the initial ramming and was hospitalized.

Israeli police said the attacker, a resident of the West Bank town of Qabatiya near Jenin, had infiltrated Israeli territory several days earlier without authorization. He was heading toward Afula when a civilian bystander intervened near Maonot Junction, leading to an...