y pursuing the assailant who might be responsible for eight previous stabbings. "It looks like the same serial murderer that we‘re looking for. I still can‘t say this definitively but that‘s the way it appears," Netanyahu told reporters. Jerusalem police commander Yair Yitzhaki said there were similarities between Tuesday‘s attack and previous stabbings in Jerusalem in the past year, mostly in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighbourhood of Mea Shearim. The 57-year-old Arab Jerusalem resident was stabbed near Mea Shearim at around 5:30 a.m. (0330 GMT) as he made his way to work. Nine Arabs have been stabbed in the past year in Jerusalem, two fatally. Yitzhaki cited the neighbourhood, the time of the attack and the single knife wound as elements that likened Tuesday‘s attack to previous ones. The knifings began in late 1997. Last month a Palestinian was stabbed to death in Jerusalem. Israel Radio said at the time markings on the knife led police to suspect a Jewish assailant carried out the attack. Police have said previously they suspect the alleged serial stabber is out to avenge the killings of Jews by Palestinians in Jerusalem. A court has banned publication of some details of the stabbings.