21.   The stabbing was the latest in a week of escalating violence.

22.   The stabbing was the sixth attack - and the first fatal one - on an Arab in the ultra-Orthodox neighbourhood of Mea Shearim in the past six months.

23.   He refused to comment on suggestions that the stabbing was a revenge attack for the murder of a Muslim shop owner in the town on Tuesday.

24.   In the second trial, the judges said new testimony showed she had not been raped and ruled that the stabbing was premeditated murder.

25.   The stabbing was broadcast live by television crews who had been waiting outside the headquarters.

26.   The Israeli army denied there had been any stabbing.