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Car Ramming Terrorist Injures Two Israelis, One Seriously

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JERUSALEM, Israel – A car ramming attack injured two Israelis Friday morning near the city of Efrat, south of Jerusalem, in the Gush Etzion region.
 
The terrorist slammed into a 70-year man at Efrat's south junction and then drove to the Gush Etzion junction, where he slammed into a 35-year-old man, Israeli media reported. The second victim sustained head injuries and is scheduled for surgery in a Jerusalem hospital.
 
After the second ramming, the teenage terrorist exited his vehicle and attempted to stab soldiers, who shot and neutralized him. He's reported in serious condition in a Jerusalem hospital.
 
The idea of vehicle ramming – using a vehicle as a weapon – began in Israel in 2008 when two Arab bulldozer drivers tried to kill Israelis on Jerusalem streets.
 
At the time, Israel imposed some additional restrictions on Arabs wanting to work at various road and residential construction sites in Israel.
 
Then other terrorists, most from areas under Palestinian Authority control in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) switched to vehicles.
 
The attacks that followed were hard to predict. They often took place at bus and light rail stops where the attacker plowed into waiting passengers, often jumping out of the vehicle and stabbing or shooting passersby.
 
As always, Israel addressed the problem and found solutions, e.g., concrete barriers, which helped stem the attacks.
 
Earlier this month, the Daily Mail published a timeline by Telegraph reporters of vehicle ramming in Europe – all over Europe.
 
London, Paris, Berlin, Barcelona and Stockholm have borne the brunt of these attacks in Europe.

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From her perch high atop the mountains surrounding Jerusalem, Tzippe Barrow tries to provide a bird’s eye view of events unfolding in her country. Tzippe’s parents were born to Russian Jewish immigrants, who fled the czar’s pogroms to make a new life in America. As a teenager, Tzippe wanted to spend a summer in Israel, but her parents, sensing the very real possibility that she might want to live there, sent her and her sister to Switzerland instead. Twenty years later, the Lord opened the door to visit the ancient homeland of her people.