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On "normal" days, he says, the
police are busy catching criminals.
"Because of the economic condi-
tions, there are a lot of thieves who
come from the Palestinian
Authority," he said.
The fence going up on the Green
Line helps somewhat, but Israelis
have their problems, too, including
drug problems and theft.
Police officers depend on volun-
teers for help, he said. In the Rosh
Ha'ain station, 74 officers in the area
were assisted by 1,200 civil guards,
and they weren't always Israeli.
"We had a volunteer from Arizona,
who came for six months and stood
with us in the barricades. We taught
him how to shoot a carbine and he
helped us when we caught a terror-
ist," Gertner said. "He's 65 years
old."
In February, the police received
intelligence that a terror group from
the West Bank town of Taiybe want-
ed to come to Tel Aviv or Netanya.
"We got a lot of officers to block.
everything," he said. "When the ter-
rorists knew they couldn't get
'through, they hid the bomb in a
mosque."
They were eventually arrested by
the IDF, who turned them over to
the police.
"After a day of questioning, they
took us to the mosque and showed
us the trash bag containing the
bomb."
Gertner, called in to handle the
operation, contacted a roving SWAT
team and bomb squad and met them
at the mosque.
"We took the special units to the
mosque to safely get the bomb out of
the mosque and in a special vehicle,
so the Arabs couldn't say that we
were blowing up mosques," he said.
Police entered the mosque with
one of the terrorists, but not before
taking off their shoes as a sign of
respect. The operation took about 36
hours from capture to disarming the
bomb.
Gertner asked the terrorist why he
did it.
. "He decided to be a bomber after
five visits with an imam in this vil-
lage," said Gertner. "He wasn't reli-
gious, but he was promised a good
life in heaven, he will have 70 virgins
and his family will get money, so he
decided to do it.
"They've educated a whole new
generation of young boys. They hate
us; they hate Jews," he said. "The
war isn't against Israel, it's against the
whole modern world."
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