On Oct. 22, as Jerusalemites were watching reports about the terror rampage in Ottawa, a private car was barreling down toward the light railway station near Ammunition Hill in the Israeli capital. The train pulled up at the station and passengers got off. The car, driven by Abdel Rahman al-Shaludi, 21, from the Silwan neighborhood of East Jerusalem, managed to cross the tracks, dodge the bollards and run over some of the passengers who had just gotten off the train.

Among those run over were Chana and Shmuel Braun, who were carrying their 3-month-old baby girl, Chaya Zissel Braun. Shaludi continued his murderous rampage hitting several other passengers until he slammed the car into a post. He tried opening the door, but it jammed. He then crawled out of the window and attempted to escape. He was shot by two policemen and later died of his wounds.

The baby girl, who came into the world after a series of grueling fertility treatments, later died at the hospital, where seven other casualties were hospitalized, including her mother. Shaludi was a Hamas militant living in a contentious neighborhood in East Jerusalem. Dozens of Jewish families, who (legally) purchased various properties in this densely populated Palestinian neighborhood, have moved in since the end of September. Having taken place in the afternoon of Oct. 22, this incident set a new record in what is now termed the “silent intifada” or “urban intifada” that has been raging in East Jerusalem in recent months. It makes a laughingstock of the efforts by the Jerusalem police to curb it.

On Oct. 23, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman posted the following on his Facebook account: “The terror attacks that took place almost simultaneously yesterday in two different parts of the world — Jerusalem and Ottawa — prove once again that terror is a global epidemic which must be fought against unrelentingly and forcefully. Terrorism,” Liberman continued, “does not stem from construction in Jerusalem, Ottawa, New York, Madrid, London or Mombasa; rather, it stems from the struggle of radical Islam against the Western world.”