Fragile Israeli government tested by perfect storm of security threats

Also:​ Upcoming religious holidays heighten concerns of more violence, including by the Islamic State operating within Israel.
An Israeli border policewoman is comforted as she mourns next to the grave of her killed colleague Shirel Aboukrat.
An Israeli border policewoman is comforted as she mourns next to the grave of her killed colleague Shirel Aboukrat during the funeral in the Mediterranean coastal city of Netanya on March 28, 2022. Two policemen were shot dead on March 27 in an attack claimed by the Islamic State group in Israel's northern city of Hadera. - MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP via Getty Images
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Bennett, Israel fear ‘perfect storm’

A new wave of violence — a combination of armed Palestinian resistance in the West Bank and what many fear is Islamic State-inspired terrorism from within Israel’s Arab communities — presents Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s fragile coalition government with its greatest test to date. 

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