Regev asks IDF chief to promise end to all terror attacks; Halevi: That’s like expecting you to prevent ‘all car accidents’

Transportation Minister Miri Regev asked the IDF chief of staff during the four-hour-long security cabinet meeting earlier today to promise that the military will do “everything possible to prevent terrorists from infiltrating” Israel in the future, the Kan public broadcaster reports.

While reiterating that the IDF would certainly do its best to ensure that no terrorists manage to infiltrate into Israeli territory, Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi told Regev that asking him to promise that it will never happen is like asking her, as transportation minister, to vow to prevent “all future car accidents.”

Regev, in response, is said to have told Halevi that he made an unfair comparison, as preventing traffic accidents also requires effort “from the Justice Ministry and other bodies.”

The report adds that Justice Minister Yariv Levin appeared offended by Regev’s comments and chimed in: “What does that have to do with me? You blame everything on me and the Justice Ministry.”