The head of the IDF's Central Command, Gen. Nitzan Alon, held a meeting Thursday morning with Jewish community leaders in Judea and Samaria, as well as the heads of the Yesha Council, in light of the recent spate of deadly Palestinian terrorist attacks in the region.
General Alon cautioned community leaders that the current escalation would get worse, but assured them it would not reach the levels of violence seen in 2000, when the so-called Second Intifada broke out. There has been much speculation that the riots and lone-wolf terror attacks of the past weeks and months could be a prelude to a "third intifada" - something security officials have been keen to play down.
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