The attacks came so rapidly at times that it was almost impossible to keep up with the wave of terror.
The violence followed the murder of Eitam and Naama Henkin a fortnight ago. By Wednesday seven Israelis were dead.
Last Thursday, a 25-year-old yeshivah student was stabbed in the neck and chest near Jerusalem’s railway station.
Six people were also injured in Tel Aviv when a terrorist wielding a screwdriver tried to stab them. A female soldier was also stabbed in the head. Their attacker was shot following a chase.
Attacks continued into the night with firebombs thrown at police in Jaffa and two more Israelis injured in rock attacks near Jerusalem.
A Palestinian with a vegetable peeler wounded a 14-year-old Israeli in Jerusalem last Friday. Another attacker was shot dead near Kiryat Arba after trying to seize a police officer’s weapon.
In the north, a 29-year-old Arab-Israeli woman attempted to stab people at Afula bus station, the scene of another attack the day before.
Mass protests also began on the Gaza border last Friday, with a crowd of 200 Palestinians throwing rocks and rolling burning tyres at soldiers. Seven Gazans were killed. Friday also saw the first revenge attack, when an Israeli man stabbed and wounded four Arabs in the southern city of Dimona.
The chaos continued on Shabbat with two stabbings in Jerusalem. Two Orthodox men were seriously wounded by a 16-year-old Palestinian with a knife, and then two policemen were stabbed near Damascus Gate.
Clashes near the Gaza border saw two Palestinian teenagers shot after breaching a “no-go security zone”.
On Sunday morning an Israeli traffic officer prevented a bomb attack on Jerusalem. When he stopped a Palestinian woman near a West Bank checkpoint, she detonated a gas canister in her vehicle while shouting “Allahu Akbar”.
Earlier, a woman and her child were reportedly killed during Israeli air strikes on Hamas weapon-manufacturing targets in Gaza.
Four people were stabbed on Sunday evening by an Israeli Arab near Hadera. The attacker, aged 20, tried to run his car into people waiting at a bus stop before leaving the vehicle and stabbing them. A 19-year-old IDF soldier received life-saving treatment from Magen David Adom paramedics after the attack.
The violence intensified again on Monday. In an incident near the Lion’s Gate entrance to the Old City, a man pulled out a knife, tried to stab an officer, and was shot and killed. In a second attack, a woman was shot and killed close to the police headquarters in the city after she stabbed two Israelis.
A 13-year-old boy was seriously injured when he was knifed while riding his bike in the Pisgat Ze’ev neighbourhood of Jerusalem. A 20-year-old was also stabbed. One of their attackers was thought to be 12 years old. He and another were shot dead by security forces.
Tuesday was the bloodiest day of all, with four terror attacks in two hours.
Two Palestinian men boarded a bus in Jerusalem and began shooting and stabbing passengers, killing 78-year-old Haviv Haim and an unnamed 45-year-old man, and injuring dozens. The second incident saw an assailant ram his car into a bus stop before slashing at bystanders with a meat cleaver.
CCTV footage showed victims being thrown into the air by the speeding car. Rabbi Yeshayahu Krishevsky, 59, was killed. The attacker was shot by a security guard. There were two stabbings in Ra’anana at the same time, injuring five people.
Wednesday evening saw two further incidents — a foiled knifing in the Old City and a stabbing at Jerusalem’s central bus station. Terrorist attackers were killed in both cases.
In a bungled revenge attack, an Israeli Jew from Kiryat Ata stabbed and wounded another Jew, thinking he was an Arab.
