It is the latest incident among surging violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
“A suspect armed with a knife committed a terrorist attack near Shivtei Israel light rail station in Jerusalem,” Israeli police said in a statement.
“The suspect was neutralised on the spot,” it said.
A border police officer who was travelling in a tram saw the attack as it happened and took action, the police said. He “promptly disembarked from the train and fired”, hitting the suspect, they said.
Police spokesman Dean Elsdunne told AFP that the attacker was a “minor” from east Jerusalem, a predominantly Palestinian area.
The 14-year-old attacker was from Beit Hanina neighbourhood in east Jerusalem and that medical officials had pronounced him dead, he said.
The Magen David Adom emergency service said it had treated a man aged around 25 who had been stabbed in the back. He was later taken to hospital.
The wounded man was in a “stable” condition, according to a statement issued by Shaare Zedek Hospital.
Dozens of Israeli security personnel converged on the station, where many ultra-Orthodox Jews dressed in black suits and white shirts were also gathered, an AFP correspondent reported.
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