Tension and violence have been rising in Jerusalem for weeks. And today it got worse.Prayers for four Israelis killed in an attack by two Palestinian men on a synagogue.Three of the victims were dual U.S.-Israeli citizens.Several other people were injured before Israeli police killed the attackers.NPR's Emily Harris joins us now from Jerusalem.And Emily, what have you learned about what happened today?Well, things started off pretty early in the morning, right around 7 a.m.during morning prayers at a neighborhood synagogue in West Jerusalem.Two Palestinian men, who are from an East Jerusalem neighbor, entered the synagogue and, as you mentioned, started an attack.Witnesses said they used a large knife and a gun.There was a traffic police officer who was apparently the first one on the scene,and other police were there within minutes.Reports in the Israeli media say thatpolice were shooting from the outside at the attackers who were at that point just inside the entrance of the synagogue.There have been pictures in the media here today ―many photos and images both of the funerals of the four men who were killed and then bloody scenes from inside the synagogue.Now, you mentioned the assailants were from East Jerusalem.This is the part of the city that was under Arab rule until Israel captured it in the 1967 war.How is it that armed Palestinians from there managed to attack a synagogue in Jewish West Jerusalem?Well, first of all, Israeli police are investigating the details of that.One main focus of their investigation is whether these two Palestinian men were familiar with the neighborhood in some way ―
