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Israeli police said on July 12 they have arrested several Jewish suspects over an arson attack last month at a shrine where Christians believe Jesus performed the miracle of loaves and fishes.

A knife-wielding Palestinian attacked passengers on a bus in Tel Aviv on Jan. 21 wounding at least 12 people before being shot by a passing prison officer, Israeli police said.        

An attacker has stabbed at least nine people traveling in a bus in central Tel Aviv, Israeli police say.

Two of the wounded are in critical condition, according to the Jerusalem Post.

The perpetrator, 23, has been shot by police officers after attempting to flee and has been wounded.

Police reports suggest he is from the West Bank city of Tulkarem.

The governor of the northwestern province of Edirne on the Turkish-Greek border has ordered a historical synagogue be turned into a museum, citing a recent Israeli raid on al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem.

“When those bandits blow winds of war inside al-Aqsa and slain Muslims, we build their synagogues,” Edirne Gov. Dursun Şahin told reporters on Nov. 21.

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) said on Tuesday two of its members were responsible for the attack in a Jerusalem synagogue that had left four people dead.

Israeli police called the incident a terrorist attack and said the two Palestinian assailants were cousins from east Jerusalem.

A Palestinian bus driver was found hanged in his vehicle in west Jerusalem overnight, in what Israeli police said was an apparent suicide but a colleague said looked like murder.
      
A police statement on Monday said that the driver, whom it did not identify, was a resident of Al-Tur, on the Mount of Olives in annexed east Jerusalem.        

US Secretary of State John Kerry met Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas in Jordan on Nov. 13 for talks aimed at calming a wave of violence gripping Israel and the occupied territories.
      

Jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghuti has been placed in solitary confinement after publishing a letter calling for a return to "armed resistance" against Israel, a Palestinian NGO said on Nov. 12.

Nothing will keep Turkey from "protecting Jerusalem and the al-Aqsa Mosque," Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has stated, while reiterating his warnings to Israel to avoid any new "attack" on holy sites.

Jewish extremist groups planned to march through Jerusalem Nov. 6 in a move expected to stoke tensions following a deadly Palestinian car attack and clashes at the flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound.