Netanel Jacobs, who was wounded this morning in a terrorist stabbing attack in Samaria, recounted from his hospital bed at Beilinson Hospital his struggle with the terrorist who stabbed him. According to Jacobs, he fought the terrorist with his bare hands and even chased after him, only then realizing that he had been wounded in several places on his body.
“I fought him, punched him and pushed him. He fell to the ground, and I went down with him," Jacobs recalled. “We were both lying on the ground. I tried to pick up a rock to throw at his head, but I couldn’t reach it."
Jacobs said that the struggle continued even after the knife broke. “He had his knife. The knife broke, and only the blade was left. He tried to keep stabbing me with it," he said. “I got to him and choked him, and then he managed to escape and ran toward his car."
Even after the terrorist managed to get away, Jacobs attempted to chase him. “I chased him with a rock, and then I saw that I was covered in blood and had stab wounds to my head, neck and hand," he recounted.
His parents, Avdiel and Penina, said at the hospital that their son was in good and stable condition. “We thank the Creator of the Universe that we merited, on the 25th of Elul, the day the world was created, for our son Netanel to be created anew. His condition is now good and stable, but without the heroism and the miracles, this could easily have ended differently," they said.
His parents called on the IDF and Israel’s leadership to take tougher measures following the attack. “We must not accept a situation in which, in the State of Israel, an Arab can rise up with the aim of slaughtering and massacring Jews. The IDF and the country’s leaders need to wake up and take truly tough action against every village of murderers from which a terrorist emerges," they stated.
They said authorities must “demolish homes, confiscate all the weapons and not make do with routine measures." They added that, in their view, the incident also demonstrates the importance of farms that maintain control over open areas, which they said keep terrorists farther away from the communities themselves.