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Since the establishment of the state of Israeli, its embassies and agencies around the world were aware that they were potential aims.
Nevertheless, the issue of killing two young workers from the embassy in Washington has come as a deep push and his war with Hamas in Gaza encourages anger around the world, throwing a spotlight on how the country wants to protect its missions abroad.
“It will crack the feeling of protection in DC,” said the former senior Israeli diplomat posted in multiple locations, including the US capital.
“It was a nightmare scene in the most sensitive place.”
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered to extend the protection of Israel’s diplomatic stations around the world in terms Down Since they had a reception for young diplomats by a person who shouted a Palestinian slogan.
Israeli officials refused to comment on what would persuade the change by mentioning the security considerations. Former diplomats, however, said that it could lead to the reconstruction of everything from the number of security personnel around the embassy to what diplomat workers could attend.
They warned that the restriction on how much protection could reach – especially if the “soft” target was attacked in the case of Washington.
“[Increased security] Usually some more local police money in front of the embassy for external protection. However, it is only responsible for the entrance to the embassy or mission and outside the surrounding areas, “the former senior diplomat said.
“You can’t protect everyone all the time. But it will definitely change the Embassy’s profile in DC dramatically. We need to re-calculate all things this is how it will change the lower profile diplomat and even non-diplomats [like the couple killed] Understand – they are also the goal. “
In the last half century, numerous Israeli embassy was the goal of attacking. One of the deadliest blaming Israel’s Hezbollah took place in 12 when a suicide bomb operated a truck at the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, and three were killed, including three Israeli embassy workers and several local workers.
Other attacks worldwide were attempted to assassinate Israel’s ambassador in the UK in 2002 and multiple attacks in New Delhi, of which an Israeli diplomat’s wife was injured in 2002, a “sticky” bomb said.
Early this year, the UK and the United States imposed Iran-backed, Swedish-based sanctions Foxtrote The criminal network and its leader, Rava Majid, whom they have accused Iran of being involved in violence against Jewish and Israeli goals in Europe.
Former envoy said that workers were usually trained to prepare them for such a national risk before being sent abroad.
Former senior diplomat said, “You are always aware of, to look around, to see the bottom of your car. They also manage the protection drill while you are in the post.”
“You should never be saved, and of course not in your own name you if you want to buy something like that you can never buy it regularly or online – you just go out and buy on the scene.”
In an Asian posting, the former diplomat added, “I never ordered a cab to the embassy – I would order me to lift half of the block in front of the Hungarian embassy.”
In some cases special distribution of government Israeli representatives abroad has been distributed to carry personal firearms, a person familiar with the situation said.
The warning has been extended since the war began in Gaza. The October of Hamas, which began the war after the October 2122, withdrew, withdraws diplomats from some of the Middle East embassies due to the concerns of Israel protection. Other missions like Abu Dhabi and Bahrain are in the position.
Israel’s missions also depend on cooperation with local security services. Israeli diplomats in countries like India with big trade and diplomatic relations with Iran have said that foreign intelligence agencies were alerted against any action on Indian soil.
“It is our responsibility to secure a particular enclosure that is our responsibility, the rest is a question of confidence in a political system,” the person said.
“For a large mission like New Delhi or Washington, it is not possible for each employee to have two armed guards [member] When they are going to the shopping mall or picking up their kids from school ””
In other countries, the embassy is indirectly involved to ensure that the local police protection of the big Jews indirectly is indirectly involved, the second person said. Istanbul’s Nave Shalum Synagog has been attacked at least three times since the decade of the decade, and Israeli security teams have advised local police about the protection system, especially after an attack on al-Qaeda.
However, diplomats said that despite the highest level protection, the attack like Washington – a person who said that the authorities played alone and had no previous contact with the police – it was very difficult to resist.
The second former Israeli diplomat who served in both the United States and Europe said, “I was under 24/7 protection … I was the whole shebang wherever I went. I felt very safe.”
“But you can feel very safe in subjectively. They [only] Once you have to get ‘lucky’, and our people have to be completely 100 percent, 100 percent of the time. “
