Meanwhile:
Noga Tarnopolsky
@NTarnopolsky
🔴 A massive terror attack was thwarted this morning in Jerusalem. There could have been a hundred bodies on Jaffa Road this morning.
Noga Tarnopolsky @NTarnopolsky 5h5 hours ago
A guard sensed something odd in a guy getting onto the tram at its most busting downtown station, and asked him, in Arabic, to open his bag.
Noga Tarnopolsky @NTarnopolsky 5h5 hours ago
He did. Inside: three pipe bombs connected to a cellphone with wires. The guard started screaming bomb! bomb! bomb! and saved untold lives.
Noga Tarnopolsky @NTarnopolsky 5h5 hours ago
We normally simply bustle by the young guys, the guards in beige jackets: they're in our way as we race to cram into the tram.
Noga Tarnopolsky @NTarnopolsky 5h5 hours ago
They seem distracted by cellphones or joking among themselves. One of these guys, maybe 22 years old, today probably saved 100 lives. Phew.
Noga Tarnopolsky @NTarnopolsky 6h6 hours ago
These events are normally hushed up, but today's attempt was caught in front of the terrified eyes of a very full Sunday morning tram.