Israel's internal security service actively working to prevent violent rioting in mixed cities

The Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) on Friday said that it was working alongside the Israel Police in dealing with the violent ethnic clashes taking place this week in mixed Jewish-Arab cities across Israel.

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The security service called the rioting “terror for all intents and purposes" and said that it is using its intelligence-gathering capabilities to prevent violent confrontations and to find and prosecute the perpetrators.

"We will not allow violent lawbreakers to control terrorism on the streets of Israel, neither by Arabs nor by Jews," Shin Bet chief Nadav Argaman said in a statement. Read more at i24