Overview
- State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman’s report warns that longstanding failures leave Jerusalem’s eastern perimeter exposed to an Oct. 7–style event.
- Only 61% of the route is protected by a physical barrier, with multi‑kilometer openings including 11‑km and 6‑km stretches the audit links to recent infiltration patterns.
- Government decisions dating to 2005 to civilianize crossings were not carried out, police lack a formal operating doctrine, and only 2 of 16 crossings have formally authorized commanders.
- Unnamed security sources now report about 6,000 unauthorized crossings each week near Qalandiya and Neve Yaakov—roughly double prewar levels—with forces using round‑the‑clock ambushes and a temporary order permitting fire at lower limbs.
- The Comptroller urges closing barrier gaps, completing civilianization, setting clear police doctrine, improving intelligence‑sharing, and reassessing the route, but funding figures are disputed and no implementation timeline is reported.