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An American tourist has been found dead near Jerusalem after she and a British-born Israeli friend were attacked and stabbed while hiking in a forest.
The woman, named locally as 40-year-old Christine Logan, was discovered by police in a forest outside Jerusalem with her hands bound behind her back.
British-born Kaye Susan Wilson raised the alarm after the pair were stabbed by two Arab men in what is being considered a politically-motivated attack.
Ms Wilson, 46, sustained knife wounds, but managed to escape by playing dead before staggering to a nearby carpark where she was helped by passers-by.
She told Israeli media that two Arab men had approached her and Ms Logan as they rested during a walk in the hills outside Jerusalem - not far from the West Bank frontier.
She said the men asked them for water, then she and her friend walked away.
When they returned to the main path the men reappeared and pulled out a large knife with a serrated edge.
"They stabbed me 12 times," she told reporters. "They came to kill. Nobody walks around with a knife like that for no reason."
At one point, Ms Wilson said one of the assailants gently removed her Star of David necklace, then proceeded to stab her where the star had been.
Spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said: "We are still looking at all directions in the investigation, but the main direction now is that it was a nationalistically motivated attack."
Referring to Ms Wilson, he added: "Her hands were tied, she was stabbed in the upper part of her body, she claimed that two Arabs stabbed her."
Israeli police have raided a hospital outside the nearby West Bank town of Bethlehem in search of suspects, believing the assailants might have been injured in the struggle, but no arrests were made.
It is not the first time hikers have been attacked and killed in Israel. In 2007, two off-duty soldiers were shot dead in the West Bank and in the 1990s four Israelis were killed in two separate attacks.
SKYNEWS
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