PHOTOS: Yair Lapid Visits Border Police At Shar Shechem – Opposes New Security Arrangements

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Yesh Atid party leader MK Yair Lapid visited with border police at Shar Shechem on Sunday following the fatal multi-prong stabbing/shooting attack at the location on Friday night. The attack claimed the life of border policewoman Hadas Malka HY”D, 23. http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/headlines-breaking-stories/1298443/thousands-attend-motzei-shabbos-levaya-fallen-border-policewoman.html

Accompanying Lapid was party MK Miki Levy, a retired Jerusalem police chief.

Lapid and Levi came to embrace the border police in the area and thank them for the operational activity they are doing for the security of the State of Israel and its citizens. The commander of the team conducted a tour of Shar Shechem compound and told them about the preparations and activities of the forces in the field and the great efforts they are making these days of the Ramadan fast to provide a sense of security in the city. Lapid embraced the troops and told them that he was proud of them for their activity in defending the State of Israel and its residents.

“I call on the prime minister to withdraw from the strange idea of turning this area into a sterile area, and it is also impossible on the operational level, there are seven gates to the Old City, 35,000 people who live in one square kilometer. Only after the prayer on Har Habayis, 180,000 people descend here every time. There is no way to turn this into a sterile area, and even on the moral level, the Old City, the eternal capital of Israel, will not become a military base or a checkpoint in Tulkarem. Our capital, we are proud of it, and people will be able to walk here freely and without fear. The army, the Border Police and the police will continue to do the work as they know how to do, about the best way.”

Lapid was referring to the new arrangement ordered by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, declaring the area around Shar Shechem a sterile security area to provide another measure of security for border police and other law-enforcement personnel.