The father of kidnapped IDF Cpl. Gilad Shalit used his time at the podium of a counter-terrorism conference at the Interdisciplinary Conference in Herzliya Sunday to tell “decision makers” not to “give me fairy tales on the need to establish deterrence on the back of a single 19-year-old soldier.”

Shalit’s son was kidnapped by Hamas terrorists in a cross-border raid near the Kerem Shalom border crossing on June 25, 2006. The elder Shalit called on the government to be “creative” in finding a way to free his son, whose whereabouts and condition are still unknown.