An American tourist, was attacked and stabbed to death, and her companion injured, while they hiked in foothills outside Jerusalem Israeli police said on Sunday.
"We are examining whether this is a nationalistic stabbing, but other leads are being examined as well," said police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld using the Israeli term for an attack by Palestinian militants.
Kaye Wilson, a British immigrant to Israel, said she and Christine Logan, a visitor from the U.S. were attacked by two Arab men Saturday south of Jerusalem in an area near Israel's border with the occupied West Bank.
"All of a sudden two Arabs walked by and they asked me in Hebrew if I had any water. So I said, dismissively, 'see ya'. Wilson told Israel's Channel 2 TV from a hospital bed. "Suddenly, they came, it happened so quickly. They attacked us. One of them took out a very long knife, not a bread knife, but one that was serrated," Wilson said.
"I played dead. I saw (the knife) hadn't gone into my heart. My friend was dying, I heard her making gurgling sounds."
Wilson, who was stabbed several times, managed to reach a parking area where people called the police, who mounted an overnight search for Logan. Her bound body was found early on Sunday morning.
