TEL AVIV, Israel – The U.S. and European countries should seriously consider adapting the Israeli model of combatting terrorism in order to fight an increasingly aggressive Islamic State, former Mossad chief Shabtai Shavit told Breitbart Jerusalem.

These measures include deploying armed guards to protect soft targets like restaurants, shopping centers, and movie theaters.

“You have to strike the right balance between defense and offense,” posited Shavit, who led Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency from 1989 to 1996. “If you adopt only the defensive strategy, pretty soon you realize that your investments achieve a prohibitive level.”

Read the article “Ex-Mossad Chief: Time for Armed Guards at Cafes, Malls and Clubs” on breitbart.com.