Police Insp.-Gen. Yohanan Danino presented seven Border Police officers and their commander with awards Monday for recently preventing a series of terrorist attacks in the West Bank.The officers, who serve under Border Police company commander Dep.-Cmdr. Avi Biton, foiled no fewer than four attacks in the Tapuah Junction area of the West Bank in under a month.“At a time when police are under intense public scrutiny, officers are continuing their difficult, uncompromising, challenging work, including the field... of counterterrorism,” Danino said during the awards ceremony.
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