Is Israel in the midst of another wave of terrorist violence? Five Israelis were killed in a terrorist incident on Tuesday evening. The attack struck the adjacent cities of Bnei Brak and Ramat Gan; one shooter has so far been identified, a second person has been arrested and the security services reportedly suspect a third might still be at large. It is the third terror attack in a week. Two Border Police officers were shot dead in Hadera on Sunday and four Israelis were stabbed to death in a terrorist incident in Beersheba last Tuesday. That is 11 people killed in seven days and the Jerusalem Post counts the latest killings as the tenth attack this month.
What is particularly concerning for the Israelis is the character of the attackers. The Beersheba assailant, 34-year-old Mohammad Abu al-Qi’an, was from a Bedouin town in the Negev. He had previously served four years for attempting to join the Islamic State.
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