One of the questions being asked today is how the terrorist responsible for the erev Shabbos shooting attack in a Dizengoff Street pub managed to escape. Kol Chai Radio’s Mordechai Lavi on Sunday morning 22 Teves asked this very question to Deputy Defense Minister Eli Ben-Dahan.
Ben-Dahan stated this question is being asked by security officials too and perhaps after he is apprehended it will be answered. When Lavi pointed out that perhaps in Tel Aviv, residents are less likely to fire at a terrorist as they might in Jerusalem, Ben-Dahan stated that just a few weeks ago a soldier who witnessed a stabbing attack in Tel Aviv fired at a terrorist, neutralizing him immediately. However, Ben-Dahan admits there are many questions that have yet to be answered. He added he received reports there were people with weapons who for one reason or another did not fire at the terrorist, and this too is being probed.
Lavi added that shuls are a “terrorist’s dream”, questioning why the Defense Ministry has not decided to place security guards at shuls during this wave of terror. Ben-Dahan explained “There are 11,000 shuls in Israel it is simply not possible to place guards at all of them”. However, Lavi questioned why at the very least guards are not placed at the main shul in a community, a question that remains unanswered.
Ben-Dahan explained many details surrounding this shooting remain a mystery at this time and additional answers are likely to be provided when the suspect who remains at large is apprehended.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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A Lot Bull Coming From A high Ranking Personal
There Needs To Be warning To The government
” no Security They Will be Vigalate ,
The Same Way The Irgun did It
70 Years Ago
mendoza,
Please speak English
seems like a sloppy mess from the TA police and security personnel.
Maybe a few changes in the top brass will change the situation?
Two suggestions for things that MIGHT help protect shuls:
1) Stop all talking during davening. Of the 12 shuls in Antwerp before WWII 11 were totally destroyed and one remained totally intact without any damage whatsoever — the German shul where they were strict not to talk during davening.
2) L’chora the more kavana we put into saying “Amen, Yehei Shemei Rabba …” now can only help that it shouldn’t have to be said later at levayas. We can’t know Hashem’s cheshbonos, but it certainly can’t help.
May we have the Geula Shleima in the coming days.
The result of a leftist city. Where in their mind arabs can do no wrong. Run by leftist police that had no plan in place for an attack like this. The funny part is that in a much more complicated city mapwise like yerushalayim they catch terrorists much quicker even if they have many more openings to run away to… Cus yerushalayim police have a plan. They know the enemy and its threat.
To Por On, a few questions, if you don’t mind, regarding talking in shul:
1. From where do you know that twelve shuls existed in Antwerp, eleven were destroyed, only in one shul there was no talking?
2. How many people survived from that one shul, as opposed to the number who survived from the other shuls?
3. You intimate that the reason that one shul survived is that nobody talked in that shul. You know this reason how? Ruach haKodesh? Nevuah? Gilui Eliyahu? Some other way.
Please, if you cannot answer these questions, don’t put a post like that up here. It is so over the top and unfounded, that it has zero effect. It is simply chutzpa disguised as frumkeit. (And, no, I usually do not talk during davening because, yes, I know that it is assur.)