A 19-year-old Palestinian stabbed and seriously wounded a yeshiva student on Thursday in northern Jerusalem in the latest of a series of attacks that have undermined Jerusalemites’ feeling of security. Initial reports said the attacker than tried to take the gun of a security guard at a light rail station. Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat urged residents who have gun permits to carry their firearms with them. The wave of Palestinian terrorist attacks on Israelis spread from Jerusalem and the West Bank to parts of Israel yesterday, with a series of attacks from Kiryat Gat to Petach Tikva. Military sources said the most serious attack was in Kiryat Gat in southern Israel, when a Palestinian stabbed a soldier who was getting off a bus, grabbed his gun and ran into a nearby apartment where he tried to stab a woman with a knife from her kitchen. The attacker was killed by police who rushed to the scene. In an effort to help contain the violence, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu barred all MKs and cabinet ministers from visiting the site that Jews call the Temple Mount and Muslims the Noble Sanctuary. Netanyahu originally ordered just Jewish MKs to stay away, but expanded the order to include Arab MKs after protests from his Likud party. The ban is apparently an attempt to calm tensions surrounding the site which flared last month, after police entered the al-Aqsa mosque after Palestinian youth began stockpiling rocks there. The site, just above the Western Wall has often been a flashpoint for tensions between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian youth. Meanwhile, the White House expressed deep concern about the escalating violence in the West Bank and Jerusalem and urged Israelis and Palestinians to restore calm after a series of attacks.