“We are taking offensive and defensive actions,” Gantz said following a security assessment with Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi and Central Command chief Maj. Gen. Yehuda Fuchs.
“I’ve ordered [the defense establishment] to aid Israeli police in the form of equipment, manpower and additional personnel,” Gantz said, after earlier in the day ordering police forces bolstered with 1,000 soldiers.
He said the defense officials are leading intelligence efforts to make preventive arrests of potential attackers, adding that he signed off earlier Wednesday on several administrative detention warrants for several suspected terrorists.
“If necessary, we will recruit thousands of reservists who will flood the streets and operate wherever operational activity is required,” Gantz added. Israel rarely calls up reservists, except for training purposes. READ MORE
