The ongoing wave of Islamic terror throughout areas of Israel began on erev Rosh Hashanah 5776. Since that time, 22 people have been murdered HY”D and 237 injured. Of the injured, 21 sustained serious injuries, 45 moderate and 21 light.

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon on Monday, 18 Kislev briefed a session of the Knesset Foreign Affairs & Defense Committee. He addressed the ongoing terror, explaining that while the IDF is equipped to continue working to halt the attacks, the military is also prepared for an escalation, which security agencies are not ruling out.

At present no senior officials is willing to say the attacks are going to end in the immediately future, despite tenacious ongoing efforts by numerous security, defense and intelligence agencies.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)