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JERUSALEM — An Arab attacker stabbed four Israelis with a screwdriver on Thursday before a soldier shot and killed him amid fresh violence that prompted Israel’s premier to bar Cabinet ministers and lawmakers from a sensitive Jerusalem holy site at the heart of the latest tensions.

The attack in Tel Aviv was among three new stabbings on Thursday that left several people wounded. A series of similar attacks in recent days, carried out mainly by young people with no known links to armed groups, have shocked Israelis and raised fears of a new uprising.

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The screwdriver-wielding assailant stabbed and wounded four Israelis, including a female soldier, near a busy Tel Aviv road before being shot dead, Police spokeswoman Luba Samri said. The attacker’s identity was not immediately known.

Earlier, Samri said a Palestinian teenager stabbed a 25-year-old Israeli in the neck in Jerusalem, wounding him seriously, before police arrested the attacker. In the West Bank, an Israeli man was seriously wounded when a Palestinian stabbed him in the stomach. Israeli forces were searching the area for the assailant after he fled the scene.