Counter-terrorism expert Boaz Ganor: Intelligence is key to thwarting terror attacks 

Ben Caspit speaks this week with Boaz Ganor, the executive director of the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism and the Ronald S. Lauder Chair for Counter-Terrorism at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya. Israel has suffered in the past ten days three terror attacks of different types and by different kinds of perpetrators, explains Ganor. He notes that the method to thwart any more attacks should be the same in principle — gathering as much intelligence as possible. He also says that when we are dealing with a lone attacker, as was the case of the first attacks in Beersheba, the intelligence-gathering challenge is obviously much more complex. 

Links:

-Fragile Israeli government tested by ‘perfect storm’ of security threats - Al-Monitor

-Fingers pointed at Israel’s security agencies for failing to prevent terrorist attacks - Al-Monitor

-Arabs across Israel condemn Islamic State-inspired attacks - Al-Monitor