One of the decisions approved during the Wednesday 24 Tishrei security briefing headed by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is to place metal detectors at gates to Jerusalem’s Old City in light of the sharp increase in terror attacks. Persons heading to the Kosel and other areas of the Old City are advised to check the situation with one’s posek regarding entering the area on Shabbos.

According to the Galei Tzahal (Army Radio) report, the metal detectors was among a number of ideas placed before the prime minister during the briefing in the hope of bringing an end to the sharp increase in Islamic terror. An emphasis will be placed on areas where attacks have occurred, which will obviously include Shar Shechem.

Israel Police is also going to create a sub unit of the Cyber Unit called the Arab Unit to monitor social networking for often, terrorists announce their intentions prior to perpetrating an attack as was the case with the 18-year-old Jerusalem Arab female who on Wednesday announced she was going to become a shahid, asking friends not to cry for her.

She was shot and seriously wounded during the attack, but remains alive at the time of this report. She posted her information hours before she headed for the Lion’s Gate to the Old City where she stabbed an Israeli man twice before he drew his gun and fired at her. B’chasdei Hashem he was only moderately wounded and his condition remains stable in a Jerusalem hospital.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)