One day prior, six Israelis, including an IDF soldier, were also wounded in stabbings.
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Palestinian protesters have repeatedly clashed with Israeli security forces in and around the complex in recent weeks.
The step was meant to reduce tensions and deny Palestinians a pretext for the continuing wave of terror.The step boomeranged after the Prime Minister’s Office clarified Thursday that the order applied to Arab lawmakers and public figures as well as Jewish ministers and lawmakers.
The Obama administration characterizes the recent wave of violence sweeping Israel as “terrorism”, a USA official told The Jerusalem Post on Friday.
The unrest is largely linked to Muslim agitation over Jewish access to a contested holy site in Jerusalem.
And an Arab stabbed and wounded a soldier in the northern Israeli town of Afula before being captured, authorities said. He was apprehended after fleeing the scene. Another Arab was stabbed near a school, she said.
Stabbing attacks in the West Bank, Jerusalem and Israel itself along with rioting have raised fears of a third Palestinian intifada, or uprising.
Israeli medics checking the condition of a man suspected of stabbing Israelis in Tel Aviv, Israel, yesterday. With the attacks spilling into the Israeli heartland, Netanyahu has warned rattled Israelis to be on guard.
Israelis and Palestinians have been injured in a fresh spate of stabbings, including what Israeli police say was an apparent revenge attack on Arabs.
Over the past week, four Israelis have been killed along with seven Palestinians, four of them after alleged attacks on Israelis.
Ms Samri said attacks were probably “nationalistically” motivated. The attacker was tackled and taken into custody.
The border has been mostly quiet since last year’s war between the Islamic militant group Hamas, which rules Gaza, and Israel but several rockets have been fired recently at Israel from the territory.
“The current clashes are being led by a young generation with no collective memory of the second intifada, which created very strong deterrence among the Palestinian leadership”.
Zeid Raad al-Hussein said in a statement issued in Geneva on Thursday that he is “deeply concerned at the increasing number of reported attacks” by both Israeli settlers and Palestinians.
The sources added that as many as 19 Palestinians were also wounded during the imbroglio, describing the injuries as slight to moderate.
In East Jerusalem’s Old City, an Israeli man was reportedly stabbed and injured by Shurooq Dweiyat, a 19-year-old Palestinian woman.
He insisted the Palestinians are not interested in a further escalation but that his “hands are with those who are protecting Al-Aqsa mosque”.
As well as tensions over al-Aqsa, Palestinian anger has mounted as Israeli forces took a tougher line against protesters who are violent.
The policeman’s attacker was shot dead, police said. A suspect, matching the description of the attacker, was later apprehended by police.
On Monday, Abdel Rahman Abdullah, a 13-year-old from the Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem, was shot and killed by Israeli forces, prompting further protests and unrest.
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And the violence has spread beyond Jerusalem and the West Bank, the historical hot spots.
