The shooting on Wednesday night in the very heart of Tel Aviv, in which four people were killed and six wounded, was the first lethal attack in Israel for exactly three months.

The last time that the so-called ‘stabbing intifada’ claimed a life was in March, when American citizen Taylor Force was killed in Jaffa. In the months since that attack, there has been a sharp decline in the number and severity of attacks. Some members of the Israeli defense establishment even started to believe that the worst of the attacks were behind us.

The attack at Sarona Market – an upscale leisure quarter, with boutiques, stores and trendy eateries – proves that they were very wrong. The level of violence may have dropped and the security forces may have come up with more effective ways of dealing with “lone wolf” attacks, but there can be no complete solution. In addition to unaffiliated Palestinian assailants carrying out knife attacks, there are also terror cells which are actively seeking to get firearms, specifically in order to carry out mass-casualty attacks.

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