Arab cab driver pepper-sprayed in Jerusalem attack

An Arab cab driver was assaulted in Jerusalem on Monday by a Jewish passenger who attacked him with pepper spray.

The incident took place on King George Street in the city’s downtown.

The suspect fled the scene, and police were searching for him.

Magen David Adom first responders brought the victim to Shaare Zedek hospital.

Police in Jerusalem were also looking for two Jewish teens who hung signs reading, “Kahane was right” and “Arabs are a cancer” on the wall of the Max Rayne Hand in Hand bilingual school in the city’s Pat neighborhood. A security guard at the Arab-Jewish school spotted the boys and called the police.

Arsonists attacked the school Saturday night, burning books and damaging a classroom. Graffiti reading “Kahane was right,” and “There is no coexistence with cancer,” was also found at the site, drawing condemnation from across Israel’s political spectrum.

Meanwhile, in the northern West Bank, a man was found unconscious at Alon junction.

An eyewitness said he was struck by a car, which drove off.

Police were searching for the perpetrator, and it is still unclear whether the incident was nationalistically motivated.

Earlier in the day, a West Bank woman stabbed an Israeli at the Gush Etzion junction south of Jerusalem. Security forces shot the attacker, reported to be 22-year-old Amal Taqatqa of Beit Fajjar.

She was brought to Jerusalem’s Hadassah-Ein Kerem hospital in serious condition.

The Israeli victim, who was lightly injured, was identified as Yehoshua Lorch.

Clashes broke out in Beit Fajjar after police arrested Taqatqa’s father at their family home.

The spate of violence came after several days of calm in Jerusalem and the West Bank, which have been rocked with weeks of unrest.