The Shin Bet revealed: More than 560 significant attacks were thwarted in the past year

During the Prime Minister's Award ceremony, Chief of the General Security Service Nadav Argaman said that in 2019 hundreds of attacks, four of them abduction attacks and ten more - suicide bombings were thwarted. Netanyahu to Shin Bet: "Hundreds of Israelis killed, perhaps more, were saved because of your activity"

The Shin Bet revealed: More than 560 significant attacks were thwarted in the past year

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More than 560 major attacks were thwarted in the past year - according to Prime Minister Shin Bet (General Security Service) Nadav Argaman on Monday during the Prime Minister's Award for Intelligence-Operational Achievement for 2016, which took place at the headquarters of the organization. 300 were shooting attacks, four were kidnapping and ten were suicide bombings.

According to Argaman, "The past year has been a year filled with security challenges in all the arenas we operate in." He explained that "these theses were made possible by each and every one of the service workers. Thanks to the investment, determination, perseverance, professionalism and creativity that characterize your work, ours."

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560 attacks were thwarted last year. Crimson with Netanyahu at ceremony today (Photo: Amos Ben Gershom, GPO)

PM Benjamin Netanyahu and GSS Prime Minister Nadav Argman at the GSS Breakthrough Operations Ceremony January 20, 2020 (Photo: Amos Ben Gershom / GPO, official website)

During the ceremony, six breakthrough promotions were awarded and certificates of appreciation were given to the employees and employees who took part in their lead. Representatives of the security agencies operating in conjunction and cooperation with the General Security Service were also present. "The special thing you are honoring today, could not have happened without the determination and aspiration for excellence that you have," Argaman told the winners. "Excellence also contains an element of innovation and creativity. The ability to create from nothing, to think outside the boundaries of the seller, to believe in the idea, even if it seems crazy at first, and not to let go of the difficulties that the road puts on.

Netanyahu said at the ceremony that "the most important thing is first of all life itself and then quality of life. You worry about both things together - saving lives in hundreds of cases. Hundreds of Israelis, perhaps more, are saved by your activity. Quality of life is the sense of security that goes beyond the question The immediate who is injured, and in saving life you also create a sense of security, which is not a given in our country. "

Netanyahu added in the ceremony that "at the end of this big target is to overcome the Iranian threat - which is both a conventional threat, both a nuclear threat and a terrorist threat - to overcome it as we have overcome the great threat of pan-Arabism. We can do that, we proved it."

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