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Asher Menachem Paley, the eight-year-old boy who was seriously injured in yesterday's terrorist ramming attack in the Ramot neighborhood of Jerusalem, succumbed to his injuries on Shabbat, Shaare Zedek Medical Center announced. Shaare Zedek reported that the child was brought to the hospital in critical condition while undergoing CPR. Teams from the trauma unit fought for hours to save his life, but were ultimately unsuccessful. Asher's six-year-old brother Yaakov Yisrael was also killed in the attack and was laid to rest yesterday before the start of Shabbat. The boys' father was moderately injured, and their ten-year-old brother was lightly injured...

Two people were killed and five more injured in a terrorist ramming attack in Jerusalem Friday afternoon. The attack occurred at 1:27 p.m. Friday at a bus stop in the Ramot neighborhood of the capital. According to preliminary reports, the terrorist rammed his car into a group of pedestrians who were waiting for a bus on Golda Meir Boulevard, on the edge of Ramot near the Tomb of Samuel (Nebi Samuel National Park). Witnesses say the terrorist, who has been identified as 31-year-old Issawiya resident Hussein Karaka, has been eliminated. Emergency first responders from MDA and United Hatzalah were dispatched...

Aharon Rabin, an eyewitness to the terrorist stabbing that left 17-year-old Yehuda Ne'emad bleeding on a street in the quiet Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramot on Sabbath afternoon, spoke with Arutz Sheva TV Saturday night about the incident. "I heard shouts," he said. "The victim's brother ran and told me that an Arab had stabbed his brother. Quickly I ran upstairs and called MDA (Magen David Adom emergency rescue service -ed.)." Ne'emad was treated at the scene and then rushed to Hadassah Ein Kerem Medical Center, where he is out of immediate danger following surgery for multiple stab wounds. He is...