The Knesset's Interior Committee held a session on Monday afternoon to discuss the deteriorating security situation in Jerusalem, just hours after an Arab terrorist was shot in the capital's Old City as he attempted to stab a security guard. The Committee meeting was opened by statements from its chair, MK Dudi Amsalem, who noted that he had initiated the meeting several months ago although it was postponed at the request of Internal Security Minister Gilad Erdan. "There's no security in Jerusalem," began Amsalem, who recounted the seemingly unending list of stabbings, rock and firebomb throwing and general rioting being conducted by Arab terrorists in and around the capital in recent months - and particularly in recent weeks. Erdan said of the situation in Jerusalem: "We're at the height of a campaign, the height of a terror wave; at the front stand Israel police officers and innocent civilians." He also condemned how Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount had been turned into a terror base by Arab rioters on numerous occasions to hurl rocks and explosives at the police.
