(FREE BEACON) JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday ordered the mobilization of close to 2,000 border police reservists in anticipation of a major surge of unrest.
The border police constitute the front line force in situations of quasi-terror and mass confrontations such as has prevailed in the West Bank and East Jerusalem for the past two weeks. A spokesman for the prime minister said the mobilization of 13 companies, in addition to three mobilized last week, was a “primary preventive and deterrent measure.” The need for increased security was demonstrated Sunday evening when a 20-year-old Israeli Arab stabbed four people at a bus stop in northern Israel, seriously injuring a young woman, before being seized by civilians and police.
