Posted on 03/28/22
| News Source: Algemeiner
Two attacks carried out in Israel over the past week by terrorists who identify with the Islamic State point to a major intelligence failure by the country’s security establishment and the need for a new strategy, former senior Israeli security officials told local media on Monday.
Four people were killed in a car-ramming and stabbing spree in Beersheba on Tuesday by an Israeli Arab who was previously imprisoned for supporting the Islamic State. On Sunday, a pair of Border Police officers were gunned down by two Israeli Arabs in a coordinated attack that the Islamic State subsequently claimed.
Adi Carmi, who previously served in Israel’s domestic security agency, the Shin Bet, said, “In the Hadera attack, there was an intelligence failure different from the lone wolf attack we saw in the Negev. We’re talking about two terrorists who obtained weapons, trained, and would have had to be organized. It seems that they fell under the radar.”
The convergence of criminal and nationalist elements in the Israeli Arab community should be a “red light to all authorities,” he added.