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October 13, 2022

The Deadly Toll of TikTok Terror, and How to Combat It

Attacks claimed the lives of two Israeli soldiers this week.

On Saturday, the eighteen-year-old Israeli soldier Noa Lazar was shot dead at a checkpoint in eastern Jerusalem. Another soldier, Ido Baruch, was killed on Tuesday. Although Hamas “blessed” the first attack, it did not claim responsibility for it; meanwhile, the Shin Bet broke up one of the group’s West Bank cells yesterday. Ron Ben-Yishai puts these attacks in the context of a seven-month-long wave of terrorism, fueled by social media and declining faith in both the established terrorist groups and the Palestinian Authority:

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