I think that while the ISIS menace cannot be ignored, what is more important is not to inflate it, israeli authorities have an interest in this regard, as no one wants to see Melhem copycats - not least because he managed to kill three people and get away, in what made them look like a bit of a circus.

Yoram Schweitzer

Yoram Schweitzer is a Senior Research Fellow at Israel's Institute for National Security Studies. He is the Director of the Institute's Terrorism and Low-Intensity Warfare Research Project, and is a senior consultant to NATO on matters of counterterrorism. Schweitzer's areas of expertise include, but are not limited to, Al Qaeda and its affiliates—the so-called "Afghan Alumni"—and state sponsored terrorism. Additionally, Schweitzer is regarded as one of Israel's foremost authorities on suicide terrorism, particularly female suicide terrorism.

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