She was rushed to the Shaare Tzedek Hospital in Jerusalem.
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The Palestinian, armed with a knife, killed a 21 year old Israeli woman before he was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers.
The Israeli army shut down the busy Route 60 after the attack, causing a large traffic jam.
This file photo shows 22-year-old Palestinian man, Fadi Hoosh, who was burned to death by Israeli settlers.
The Israeli media reported that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is planning to visit both Israel and the Palestinian territories and he is expected to arrive on Tuesday to meet leaders of both sides.
Two Palestinians teens aged 14 and 16 attacked civilians with scissors near the entrance to the Mahane Yehuda market, on Jaffa Road.
Riham, who had also lost her 32-year-old husband, Sa’ad Dawabsheh, in the assault, was pronounced dead after spending five weeks on life support at Soroka Medical Center in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba.
“We are facing terrorism by individuals”.
Security forces are hunting for the attacker, who is believed to be a Palestinian.
Elsewhere in the West Bank, a Palestinian driving a taxi cab tried to run over Israelis east of Jerusalem, police said.
Israel’s Shin Bet security agency identified the attacker as Issam Thawabteh, 34, from Beit Fajjar near Bethlehem.
On Saturday, the Israeli military raided a Palestinian radio station in Hebron and confiscated equipment it said was being used to broadcast calls to attack Israelis.
Eighty-four Palestinians have been killed in the spate of violence since October 1, a few while carrying out attacks and others in clashes with Israeli forces.
The Palestinian suspect, from a village near Hebron in the occupied West Bank, was apprehended in the garden of a nearby house after security forces mounted a search.
Right-wing Israeli politicians allied with prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu have increased visits to the site and have said they will seek to allow Jewish prayer there.
Frustration by a new Palestinian generation at the failure to achieve statehood through negotiations – and anger at ongoing Israeli settlement expansion – are seen as an underlying cause of the violence.
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The wave of violence began over tensions surrounding a sensitive Jerusalem holy site and has since spread across Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza border.
