How Shin-Bet Head Nadav Argaman Broke the Terror Wave
PREVENTATIVE MEDICINE The results of Argaman’s efforts speak for itself. In the past 12 months security forces identified some 2200 Palestinians in various stages of planning lone-wolf terror attacks and arrested about 800 (Photos: Flash90)
A year ago at this time it looked as if Israel was facing a protracted wave of lone-wolf terror attacks that included car-rammings and stabbings.
A year later security forces have largely broken the wave thanks mainly to the innovations of 56-year-old Nadav Argaman the new head of the Shin Bet or the Shabak.
Argaman accomplished the task by initiating extensive structural reforms among the various intelligence agencies of the Mossad IDF and internal security — merging departments eliminating redundant positions and ending the arbitrary territorial divisions among the various security forces. His most significant reform was to create one cyber division responsible for initiating developing and producing advanced technological tools for intelligence collection counterterror operations and blocking domestic subversion against the State of Israel and its interests.
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