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Thursday, May 14, 2026
Cops nab suspect at car wash for planning attack on Jerusalem Day celebrations
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GooglePolice say they arrested a suspect who planned to carry out a terror attack today during the Jerusalem Day celebrations in the capital.
Undercover Border Police officers tracked the suspect down to a car wash in Abu Tor, a mixed Jewish-Arab neighborhood in Jerusalem, where they apprehended him.
He was handed over to the Shin Bet to be interrogated, police say.
המשטרה: נעצר חשוד שתכנן לבצע פיגוע במהלך אירועי יום ירושלים | תיעוד המעצר ממצלמות קסדת המסתערבים ומתצפית אווירית
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— כאן חדשות (@kann_news) May 14, 2026
Earlier today, tens of thousands of religious Zionist revelers paraded through the Old City to the Western Wall as part of the annual Flag March, celebrating the reunification of Jerusalem after Israel’s capture of East Jerusalem and the Old City from Jordan in the 1967 Six Day War.
The procession, which runs through the Muslim Quarter, often sees violent confrontations between far-right Jewish youth and the few Palestinian locals who remain in the area.
The Times of Israel Community.