King intervenes in vehicle to save priest from Jerusalem? (7)
I believe the answer is:
israeli
'from jerusalem?' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'king intervenes in vehicle to save priest' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'king' could be 'r' (r is abbreviation for rex) and 'r' is found in the answer.
'priest' could be 'eli' (I've seen this before) and 'eli' is located in the answer.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for israeli that I've seen before include "Jew in a state" , "from part of Middle East?" , "Citizen of Middle Eastern state" , "Jew, possibly" , "one from Haifa?" .)