Police release video of stabbing in Jaffa last month

Police wrap up an investigation and release a video of a stabbing attack in Jaffa last month.

The video shows the attacker walking up behind a couple, pulling out a knife, stabbing the man, then fleeing toward a mosque.

Police and the Shin Bet internal security service have finished their investigation into the attack, police say.

They identify the attacker as Mohammad Bani Odeh, 18, from the Palestinian town of Tamun.

The victim was a 67-year-old Jewish man from Bat Yam who was walking with his wife at the time of the stabbing. He was moderately hurt in the attack.

The attacker was captured by police at a mosque in Jaffa less than an hour after the attack.

The attacker had left Tamun, in the West Bank, and traveled that day to Jaffa, next to Tel Aviv. He had previously worked illegally there as a dishwasher in a restaurant.

He is suspected of attempted murder with a nationalist motive. An indictment will be filed against him shortly, police say.

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