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Police Investigate Attempted Knife Attack and Car Arson at Hanania Farm

Courtroom-sketch editorial illustration of empty terraced hills and rocky vegetation, adapted from an archival photograph of the hill country of Ephraim; regional context, not Hanania Farm or the reported October 5 attack.

Israel Police said officers were investigating an attempted knife attack and suspected car arson at Hanania Farm in the Binyamin area on Monday. According to preliminary findings, a Palestinian attacker allegedly set fire to a vehicle belonging to the farm using a lighter. When residents approached him, he threatened them with a knife. The residents struck him with their vehicle, ending the immediate threat; none of them was injured, police said. Officers from the Binyamin station arrived after receiving a report of an armed attacker and a burned vehicle in nearby grazing land.

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