Lod Mayor Yair Revivo visited the principal of the Rambam school in Lod who was stabbed Monday night by an Arab assailant and expressed the hope that the incident was a criminal incident and not nationalistically motivated.
The 44-year-old woman was stabbed on Katznelson street in Lod and moderately wounded. She is hospitalized at the Assaf Harofeh medical center.
Mayor Revivo initiated a special meeting in the wake of the incident including police and Shabak representatives in Lod. The mayor said that "for decades there hasn't been a nationalist incident in Lod and I believe in the great responsibility incumbent on the public to maintain the fragile but stable coexistence."
On his Facebook page Revivo added that "the main direction [of the investigation] is criminal and I hope that at the end of the intricate investigation the evidence on the scene will support this view."