King emphasized that on the very day he submitted the complaint he showed a police investigator pictures of the bullet and the bullet hole, and likewise sent the pictures to various police captains, but despite this no police action was made.

“Very senior sources in the Jerusalem police heard about it from me and received the photos so they can’t say it wasn’t reported to them, but unfortunately it fell on deaf ears, and only with the involvement of the police commissioner and his aide it was dealt with,” said King.

Regarding the complete lack of a response, King elaborated “no one spoke to me despite the fact I contacted several police captains I came across in the field on several occasions. I haven’t received an explanation, up to this very moment.”

When asked to explain why police might ignore the shooting, King said he wanted to believe officers simply thought it wasn’t a serious incident, “but I know that was in the height of the event. That same night dozens if not hundreds of rocks were thrown and fireworks were shot at us, and only the next day did we see the bullet.”

“We didn’t hear the gunshot because of the firework sounds, aside from the fact that there was shooting at the same time from several locations in Jerusalem,” said King, apparently referring to the firework and rock attacks engulfing the capital.

King added that anyone else in a similar situation of danger and police apathy “must understand it’s their security, and therefore they can’t give up…The nature of things is that the police minimize the workload, and that comes at the expense of our lives.”

The councilman concluded by saying he hoped the shooting of Glick will shake police out of their apathy, and lead them to take the protection of Jerusalem more seriously.

The shooting incident against King’s house, coupled with the assassination attempt, raises many question marks regarding police preparedness in defending nationalist leaders in the capital.

Recordings proved that police were aware of the death threats on Glick’s life despite their protestations to the contrary, and still did not act on his complaints to protect his life. Nevertheless, police on Monday continued to deny they were aware of such threats.

In the wake of the attack, it has been revealed that Islamist Facebook pages have been passing around lists of Jewish leaders targeted for attacks.