Young Israeli Woman Succumbs to Stabbing Attack

JERUSALEM, Israel – A 23-year-old Israeli woman died on Tuesday after being stabbed in a terror attack the day before.

In what is quickly becoming a new trend in terror attacks, two Palestinians jumped the security fence of the Jewish community of Beit Horon outside Jerusalem.

They stabbed Shlomit Krigman and another woman, 58, and threw fire bombs at the grocery store there. When the bombs failed to explode, they tried to enter the grocery where women and children were shopping.

In a scene captured by a security camera in the store, cashier Mordechai Shalem can be seen fighting the terrorists with a grocery cart, successfully preventing them from entering the store.

Shalem described the ordeal in an interview on Israeli television as "frightening."

"Two people were standing next to me with knives," he recalled. "I could see the hate and the anger. They screamed 'Allahu akbar' (Allah is greater) and I said, 'dogs, get out of here."  He said they ran away after a few seconds and noted it was "a clear miracle."

The terrorists were shot and killed by a security guard outside the store.

Beit Horon resident Chaim Zisovich said the area is normally quiet and no one had ever entered the community to carry out an attack.

The terrorists were a 21-year-old from a neighboring Arab community and a 17-year-old from the Kalandia refugee camp near Ramallah.

This is the third time in eight days Palestinians have entered communities in Judea and Samaria, also known as the West Bank, to carry out an attack.  All three times women were their victims, including a mother of six, who was killed outside her home, and a pregnant woman.