The Minister in the Finance Ministry and official responsible for the rehabilitation of the north and south, Zeev Elkin, addressed the deadly shooting attack in Jerusalem at the opening of the "Future of the State" conference organized by ynet, "Yedioth Ahronoth" and the Open University. "I passed through this junction ten minutes before," he said, "This is a very serious incident. The response to an attack should be before it happens, not after." According to him, "There are constant attempts to carry out attacks, we are not aware of them because most are stopped before they materialize. But despite unprecedented achievements in the scope of activities there in recent years, occasionally an attack still happens - and this morning it unfortunately happened."