{"id":55056,"date":"2025-12-16T10:05:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T15:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/in-wake-of-war-israelis-jews-face-heightened-danger-of-kidnapping\/16\/12\/2025\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T10:05:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T15:05:20","slug":"in-wake-of-war-israelis-jews-face-heightened-danger-of-kidnapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/in-wake-of-war-israelis-jews-face-heightened-danger-of-kidnapping\/16\/12\/2025\/","title":{"rendered":"In wake of war, Israelis, Jews face heightened danger of kidnapping"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As Zini saw it, the price of future danger from releasing security prisoners and allowing Hamas to continue armed outweighed the price of losing the remaining hostages.<\/p>\n

Shin Bet Director David Zini<\/a> recently told the security cabinet that the danger of hostile parties trying to kidnap Israelis and Jews, whether in Israel or abroad, has spiked following the Israel-Hamas War.<\/p>\n

Yediot Ahronot first reported the statement, but The Jerusalem Post<\/em> has received similar indications. The Shin Bet<\/a> has not denied the story.<\/p>\n

Further, Zini was known to oppose some of the hostage deal proposals during the course of the war, which much of the defense establishment favored due to his position that Hamas<\/a> had to be further disarmed and because he viewed releasing thousands of Palestinian security prisoners in exchange for the hostages as creating greater future dangers.<\/p>\n

Price of future danger outweighed losing hostages, Zini calculated<\/h3>\n

As Zini saw it, the price of future danger from releasing security prisoners and allowing Hamas to continue armed outweighed the price of losing the remaining hostages.<\/p>\n

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