The Israeli Defense Forces have stepped up drills in response to what it believes is a heightened risk of Daesh terror coming from Sinai, suggests the Times of Israel’s Judah Ari Gross. He notes that recent exercises took place in the same week as Israel’s Counter-Terrorism Bureau released a warning against travel to the Sinai Peninsula.
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