RABBI STABBED IN GERMANY

Rabbi stabbed on street in Frankfurt bank quarter (Haaretz)
FRANKFURT - A 42-year-old rabbi was stabbed in an attack near Germany's financial district in Frankfurt, police said yesterday. The police said the rabbi, who managed to get to a nearby hospital after the attack, had been approached on a street in Frankfurt's upscale Westend quarter on Friday by a man he believed was speaking Arabic.

When the rabbi stopped to ask the man what he wanted, the assailant pulled out a pocket knife, uttered a death threat in German and stabbed him in the abdomen. The assailant and two women with him then fled the scene of the attack. The police said the rabbi, who is a member of the local Jewish community, was operated on in hospital shortly after the 8:30 P.M. attack and the injuries were not critical.