ROSH HASHANAH TERRORIST ATTACK FOILED

Shin Bet Chief: Gaza Raid Foiled Rosh Hashanah Attack on Israelis in Sinai - Yuval Yoaz (Ha'aretz), and Herb Keinon and Margot Dudkevitch (Jerusalem Post)

Shin Bet security services chief Avi Dichter told the Cabinet Sunday that a planned terrorist attack against Israeli tourists in the Sinai over the Rosh Hashanah holiday was in all likelihood blocked as a result of an IDF operation in Gaza last week.

Dichter said eight Hamas activists from Gaza were apprehended in the Egyptian side of Rafah last week on their way to the Sinai and from there to the Negev to carry out an attack. The arrest of this group, coupled with Israel's successful attack earlier this month that killed 14 Hamas activists training at a soccer field in Gaza, diverted the organization's attention and kept them from carrying out a planned attack in Sinai.