Knife used in a stabbing attack on an Israeli civilian near the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron on December 7, 2015. (Israel Police)
Police publish a picture of the knife used in the attack.
The Hebron attack breaks several days of relative quiet in the often restive city, which a month ago was seeing several attacks a day.
On Saturday, a woman was arrested after being caught with a knife during a search near the Tomb of the Patriarchs.
Earlier, an Israeli soldier was lightly injured in a stabbing attack in the West Bank city of Hebron overnight Thursday-Friday. The two Palestinian assailants were shot dead at the scene in the Tel Rumeida neighborhood, according to initial reports.
The only shared city in the West Bank, Hebron has seen constant friction between the community of several hundred settlers and the much larger Palestinian population.
The Tomb of the Patriarchs, shared by Jews and Muslims who both revere it as the final resting place of the Biblical Abraham and his kin, has been a particular source of tension in the city.
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