Today, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was rushed to an underground room after a car bomb scare.
Tension briefly soared at the tightly guarded Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem Monday morning when security officials got an alert about a suspicious vehicle parked nearby, Israel’s Ch. 2 News reported.
Bodyguards rushed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to an underground room, while ministers attending a Housing Cabinet meeting elsewhere in the building were rushed to a safe area.
Finance Minister Yair Lapid, Housing Minister Uri Ariel and Immigrant Absorption Minister Sofa Landver were discussing solutions for several thorny housing issues, when security chiefs broke into the session and initiated a security protocol in which VIPs are hurried to protected areas away from the threatened sector of the heavily-patrolled compound.
Meanwhile, officials checked out the suspected car bomb left in a nearby lot, which turned out to be a false alarm.
Commenting on the incident, a US official simply said “Chickenshit!”
