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Europe’s police take anti-terror tips from Israel

On a visit to London last week, Israel’s national police spokesman, Micky Rosenfeld called on Britain to up its game in trying to combat terrorism

March 3, 2017 10:03
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Jenni Frazer,

jenni frazer

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Israel’s national police spokesman, Micky Rosenfeld, has revealed that European counter-terror police have been receiving training and information in Jerusalem over the past eight months.

In a breakfast address hosted by the United Synagogue in central London last week, the British-born Superintendent Rosenfeld drew an uncompromising picture of the different approaches to terrorism in Israel and in Europe.

He said: “In the last six to eight months there have been terrorist attacks in France and Germany, and we [in Israel] have had overseas delegations come to Jerusalem to receive information and train with our anti-terrorist unit. They learned how to prevent an attack from taking place and, if it does, how to respond so that there are a minimum number of casualties.”

He believed that part of the problem was Europe’s open borders and, as a result, the difficulty of identifying and tracking potential terrorists: “That’s exactly the difference between Israel and Europe. Israel has strong, concrete intelligence. We know what house, what number, what name, what vehicle. We know almost to the last detail who lives where, who is moving around and who is communicating.”