The information that the Knesset Research and Information Center did receive was that most of the illegal guns in Israel were smuggled in from abroad (Jordan and Lebanon) or manufactured in 'pirate' plants in the Palestinian Authority. The Knesset Research and Information Center surveyed the issue of the transfer of weapons and tried to obtain official estimates about the number of illegal guns from Israel Police and the Ministry of Internal Security but failed. Israeli Arab terror fueled by availability of weaponsĪnd as the State Comptroller wrote in both his 20 reports, "The police has no estimate regarding the scale of illegal weapons in Israel in general and Arab society in particular." It's a rough estimate and it's not based on anything but I see scenes connected to each other by the same gun which has been shot in several places and that shows that not every family has a gun."īut Ezra also admits that he is talking about a rough estimate, which "is not based on anything." RELATED ARTICLES I'm talking about 8,000-10,000 guns, that's my estimate, more or less. Not hundreds of thousands and not tens of thousands. If we see one gun that we connect to 20 crime scenes, we understand that not every family has a gun but the gun has been passed around between different families."Įzra added, "Not hundreds. During a special debate convened by Ohana by the Knesset Committee for Arab Affairs Deputy Commander Yigal Ezra, Head of Israel Police Department for the Prevention of Crime in the Arab Sector said, "We are talking about thousands of guns and not about tens of thousands. Regarding Israeli Arab society nobody has any information either. The answer was that nobody knows where the number comes from and we have no data on how many illegal guns there are in Israel but just an estimate. I asked the police how many illegal guns are there in the State of Israel, and I added and asked where the number 400,000 came from.
Ohana said, "This number has been known to me for years and when I entered office I requested that it be confirmed or denied. In May 2021, Forer asked then Minister of Internal Security Amir Ohana whether the 400,000 number was correct. Forer himself currently admits that the "Police provides different estimates every time." The organization writes, "According to reports that have not been verified, in 2013 the police estimated that the number of illegal guns in Israel was 400,000." In other words the report was based on an unverified estimate by the police nearly a decade ago. How did Forer come up with this number? The number came from a women's organization called The Gun on the Kitchen Table, which seeks greater restrictions for gun ownership by Israeli citizens.
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