Editing Israel Border Police (section)

==History==
[[File:Border Police officers monitor Biden visit, July 2022 (Thumbnail friendly).jpg|thumb|left|''Magavniks'' in [[Jerusalem]] monitor [[Joe Biden]]s visit to Israel in July 2022.]]
The Border Police was founded in 1949 as the Frontier Corps ({{Script/Hebrew|חיל הספר}}, ''Heil HaSfar''), a [[gendarmerie]] under the [[Israel Defense Forces|IDF]] with the task of providing security in rural areas and along the borders. Over the following years, it was gradually transferred to the command of the [[Israeli Police|Police]] and became the Border Police. During these years, it secured new settlements and countered infiltration of Palestinian [[Fedayeen#Palestinians|fedayeen]], especially from [[Egypt]] and [[Jordan]].

During the [[1956 Suez War]], the Border Police was involved in the [[Kafr Qasim massacre]]. On the second day of the war, a curfew was imposed on the [[Israeli Arab]] village. Villagers who had worked in the village fields and were apparently unaware of the curfew were shot as they returned to the village,<ref>''Jewish Literacy'', Joseph Telushkin, p. 595, Harper-Collins, 1991, {{ISBN|0-688-08506-7}}</ref> resulting in 49 dead. This event was strongly protested by the Israeli public and resulted in a landmark Supreme Court ruling on the obligation of soldiers to disobey manifestly illegal orders.

During the 1967 [[Six-Day War]], the Border Police fought alongside the [[Israel Defense Forces|IDF]]. After the war, it was deployed in the [[West Bank]] and [[Gaza Strip]] and charged with maintaining law and order as part of the military administration of [[Israeli-occupied territories]]. Since then, a significant portion of the Border Police's activity has been in these territories, especially during the years of the [[First Intifada]] and the [[Second Intifada|Second (al-Aqsa) Intifada]].

In 1974, the [[Counter-terrorism|counter-terror]] unit [[Yamam]] was established.
[[File:MAGAV TEL AVIV MERKAZ.jpg|thumb|''Magavnikim'' with an Israel Border Police [[Chevrolet Express]] van on the [[Tel Aviv Promenade]] in [[Tel Aviv]].]]
In the 2000 [[October Riots]], the Border Police was used as the main branch of the treatment in the events. During the Second Intifada, the Border Police took a large part in the security activity.

In 2005, the Border Police participated in the implementation of the [[Israeli disengagement from Gaza]].

The Border Police's heaviest area of operation is Jerusalem. Virtually all "soldiers" seen patrolling Jerusalem's streets are Border Guard Police officers. Approximately 20% of all Border Guard personnel in the country are in Jerusalem. Jerusalem MAGAV also provides security and conducts military operations, raids, and arrests on Palestinians in cities like [[Jenin]], [[Nablus]], [[Jericho]], [[Qalqilya]], [[Tulkarm]], [[Ramallah]], and [[Hebron]].

The number of Border Guards is believed to be about 6,000 soldiers and officers.