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Two terrorists were shot dead overnight Thursday following a stabbing attack in the Tel Rumeida neighborhood of Hevron. The terrorists arrived at a security checkpoint just before 1:00 a.m. local time, where one of them stabbed a 20-year old soldier and lightly injured him in the face. The two terrorists were then shot dead by IDF soldiers who arrived on the scene. Magen David Adom paramedics evacuated the wounded soldier to the Shaare Tzedek Hospital in Jerusalem. .....

It happened again. In 2002, on the first day of the huge Succot celebrations, early evening, an Arab terrorist opened fire near the Avraham Avinu neighborhood. As a result, Rabbi Shlomo Shapira from Jerusalem was killed. Fast forward: Succot, September 2013, eleven years later. Almost the same exact time. An Arab terrorist shoots, killing an Israeli soldier, near the “Beit Merkachat” intersection in Hebron. As with Rabbi Shapira, the soldier never really had a chance. A bullet penetrated his neck, leaving an entrance and exit wound. Medical personnel did everything humanly possible. But it wasn’t enough. Prior to the killing,...