JERUSALEM — Israel’s military expanded its massive manhunt for a Palestinian assailant on Monday as authorities announced that a second Israeli died of wounds sustained in a West Bank shooting attack the previous day. Ettinger, an ordained rabbi, lived in a West Bank settlement and headed a religious seminary in Tel Aviv. “We know the attacker’s identity … and security forces are in a close pursuit after him,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said as he visited the site of the shooting attack. Since 2015, Palestinians have killed over 50 Israelis in stabbings, shootings and car-ramming attacks in the West Bank. Israel has described most of the Palestinians killed as attackers, but clashes between protesters and soldiers have also turned deadly.

Source: National Post March 18, 2019 08:26 UTC