Police have named a 13-year-old boy killed by an axe-wielding terrorist in an attack which left a younger boy with a fractured skull.
Shlomo Nativ suffered critical head injuries but Yair Gamliel, is recovering at the Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem.
Sholmo’s parents, Haim and Ravital Nativ, are among the original settlers who founded the community in Bat Ayin where the attack took place.
Yair is the son of Ofer Gamliel, 47, who is serving a 15-year sentence for planning a terrorist attack against a girls’ school in East Jerusalem in 2002.
A local resident, named only as Avinoam, described how he seized the axe from the attacker’s hands but could not stop him escaping. He said the man chanted "I will kill, I will kill" while they grappled.
“He had a longing for murder in his eyes, the struggle lasted several minutes,” he added.
Islamic Jihad said the attack was carried out by one of their members, but a terror group called the Martyrs of Imad Mughniyeh sent emails to the media, also claiming responsibility.
Police set up roadblocks after the attacker escaped to a neighbouring Arab village.
Israeli security forces have launched an investigation to determine how he could have entered the community. Government spokesman Mark Regev has condemned the attack as a "senseless act of brutality against innocents."