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The ongoing Islamic terror wave began on erev Rosh Hashanah 5776. The experts are saying there is no immediate end in sight. Many are asking how people are coping, especially in Yerushalayim, which has been the location of many fatal and non-fatal attacks, including a vehicular attack at a major bus stop on Herzl Street near the Cords Bridge on Tuesday afternoon, 3 Teves. IBA News set out to interview Jerusalemites towards determining how they are coping with the situation following that latest vehicular attack.

The video shows that when returning to the site of that attack the following morning, the stop is being repaired and there is a security guard present, a member of the public transportation security force.

He explains the need to maintain vigilance, watching people and packages for anything suspicious.

One young lady explains “I am on my way to Mount Scopus and this is my route”, adding life cannot stop and one must continue one’s routine.

A second female explains “This is my home and I will not permit anyone to make me feel uncomfortable in my own home”.

Tzvi, a chareidi man, tells the cameras that the Kosel is in the eastern capital and that is too dangerous so he will not visit at present but elsewhere one cannot know what will occur.

In Mevassert Tzion, a city in the Jerusalem corridor, the municipality explains it lacks the funds to fortify bus stops against vehicular attacks. Mr. Ohz Michael explains that he took the initiative and together with others, donated their labor to install the metallic barriers at a major bus stop that serves many soldiers and civilians alike towards preventing a vehicle from ramming passengers at the stop. Ohz brought his workers and paid them to install the barriers to protect people at the bus stop.

Chaggai Ohr of Beit Shemesh explains she travels weekly and is pleased to see the barriers for prior to the installation, she would stand behind the concrete bus stop for protection.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)