The Almagor Terror Victim Association responded to the attempted terror attack in a Haifa mall on Saturday night by calling on the government to return to Judea and Samaria checkpoints it left just two weeks ago. In the attack last night, an alert citizen noticed a car bomb near a busy Haifa mall and police defused the threat.

Almagor pointed out that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said in this morning’s cabinet meeting that the government would treat the attack seriously and that the security services estimated the attack originated from Judea and Samaria. Also last week, terrorists shot and killed two police in the Jordan valley. Police claimed that opening the checkpoints had nothing to do with that attack.