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Chaos and Mourning in Jerusalem After Synagogue Attack

Two Palestinian assailants kill 4 at a synagogue

Two Palestinians from East Jerusalem burst into a West Jerusalem synagogue Tuesday morning, killing four people and wounding several others. Three American-Israeli dual-citizens were identified among the victims. This latest attack is being viewed by both sides as a potential turning point in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

An Israeli police officer gestures as he holds a weapon near the scene of an attack at a Jerusalem synagogue, Nov. 18, 2014. Israeli emergency personnel take out a body of an Israeli man outside a synagogue on Nov. 18, 2014 in Jerusalem. People react as they stand outside a synagogue on Nov. 18, 2014 in Jerusalem. Israeli police crime scene investigators stand near bodies of suspected attackers outside a synagogue on Nov. 18, 2014 in Jerusalem. Israeli security personnel run next to a synagogue, where a suspected Palestinian attack took place, in Jerusalem, Nov. 18, 2014. A bullet hole in a synagogue's front glass seen from inside and looking outwards to the Har Nof neighborhood in Jerusalem, Nov. 18, 2014. Ultra-Orthodox Jewish youths look at the scene of a shooting attack in a synagogue in Jerusalem, Nov. 18, 2014. Mourners gather for the triple funeral of Rabbi Kalman Levine, Avraham Goldberg and Arieh Kupinsky on Nov.18, 2014 in Jerusalem. Ultra-Orthodox Jews carry the body of Mosheh Twersky during his funeral in Jerusalem, Nov. 18, 2014.

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