An Arab man from northern Israel sustained minor injuries in Herzliya on Monday morning, after being stabbed by a man allegedly shouting “Death to Arabs!” The police detained a suspect, a Herzliya resident in his mid-30s, who confessed to stabbing the victim because he was an Arab.

The injured man, a 27-year-old street cleaner for the municipality, told police officers that a Jewish man with a Russian accent yelled “Death to Arabs” in Hebrew before stabbing him with a knife. In a statement, the Magen David Adom rescue service said the two men were apparently fighting. Eyewitnesses said they did not hear the attacker shouting, but it’s not clear whether they were close to the incident.

The attacker fled the scene, but was apprehended by police officers during the search of the area.

“When we arrived, we saw a man of around 28 who presumably worked nearby; he was fully conscious and walking. He suffered from a superficial stab wound to his upper body. We treated him and transported him to hospital in good condition,” said MDA paramedic Sigal Abramovich.

Last month, the police investigated an incident in Jerusalem’s French Hill neighborhood, in which a 22-year-old Arab man sustained mild to moderate injuries. He said two young Jewish men attacked him, injuring his back and legs.

In December, a number of city bus drivers from East Jerusalem were assaulted in several incidents, which prompted 27 drivers to tender their resignations, saying they feared for their lives.

Awad Ghneim, one of the drivers who was assaulted, related at the time that a passenger asked him, “Do you like Jews?” Before he had time to respond, five men beat him up, he said. “I got up and they came at me. They kicked me in the side and hit my back,” he told Israel Channel 2 television news. “They also pulled me from the [steering] wheel, outside, and began shouting ‘Death to the Arabs! We’ll kill you, you Arab!’”

In a separate incident, taxi driver Mohammed Shalayla, from East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, was attacked with pepper spray in West Jerusalem. Shalayla said he stopped on King George Street to pick up a passenger when another man, whom he described as a Jewish man in his 40s, shouted, “Don’t take that cab, the driver is Arab.” Shalayla said he told the man he wouldn’t drive such an “extremist” passenger, after which the man pepper-sprayed him in the face through the window.