A terrorist has been killed in Jerusalem’s Old City after he attempted to stab an Israeli police office.
The incident on Monday morning followed a weekend of spiralling violence across Israel and the Palestinian territories.
The attack, near the Lion’s Gate entrance to the city, took place after the man approached the area and was asked by police to take his hands out of his pockets.
He pulled out a knife, tried to stab an officer, and was shot and killed. No one else was injured.
There have been increased patrols by security forces in the Old City since a series of knife attacks in the past 10 days.
In a second incident at lunchtime, a woman was shot and reportedly killed close to the police headquarters in the city.
Reports suggested two Israelis were injured when the woman tried to stab them. Magen David Adom said it was treating one person.
Some eyewitness reports said there had been two attackers - both women - and that both had been shot.
Attacks on Israelis continued throughout the weekend. In one of the most serious, four people were stabbed, one critically, by an Israeli Arab near Gan Shmuel, in the Hadera area, on Sunday evening.
The attacker, aged 20, tried to run his car into people waiting at a bus stop. He then got out and started stabbing them. He was captured by police.
Also on Sunday a Palestinian bomber bound for Jerusalem was severely injured when she detonated a gas canister after being stopped by a traffic officer near a West Bank checkpoint.
Earlier, a woman and her child were reportedly killed during Israeli airstrikes on Hamas weapon manufacturing targets in Gaza. An IDF spokesman said the action was in response to renewed rocket fire on Israel.
The critical injuries in the Hadera attack were sustained by a 19-year-old woman serving in the IDF, who was rushed to hospital after receiving "life-saving" treatment by Magen David Adom paramedics.
In the West Bank explosion, the bomber - who was known to the security forces - was stopped driving suspiciously near the settlement of Maale Adumim. She shouted "Allahu Akbar [God is Great]" before setting off the explosive.
The officer, Moshe Chen, suffered minor injuries. He was praised for averting a major terror attack by local police chief Rafi Cohen, who said he had no doubt that the woman had intended to drive to Jerusalem.
"Had she arrived at a crowded place, the damage would have been much, much greater," he said.
Security agency Shin Bet said the woman was carrying letters praising Palestinian "martyrs".
On Saturday, Israeli police shot dead two Palestinian youths in clashes close to the Gaza border. Five Israelis were wounded in separate stabbing attacks in Jerusalem. Both Palestinian assailants were killed.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has directed Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein to open a criminal investigation against Joint List MK Haneen Zoabi for, he said, calling for "a popular intifada" against Israel.
Mr Netanyahu quoted Ms Zoabi as saying to a Hamas newspaper that "hundreds of thousands of worshippers should go to the Al-Aksa Mosque to stand up against Israel's conspiracy to condone violence against east Jerusalem residents".
Responding to Mr Netanyahu's move, she said she would continue her "just struggle for equality for all".
