Over 1,000 teenagers were inside the south Tel Aviv nightclub which was targeted in a Monday morning terror attack, Police Insp.-Gen. Yochanan Danino said.
He said Border Police preparations "were extraordinary and prevented a big disaster."
He added that police force would continue to be deployed in the coming weeks in its current form.
"The preparations are what allowed tens of officers to tackle the terrorist, who is now being questioned," Danino said.
Seven people were injured in the attack, when a terrorist from the West Bank carjacked a taxi and rammed it into a police road block protecting a Tel Aviv nightclub, before going on a stabbing spree.
Police said the terrorist, a Nablus resident in his 20s, entered a taxi near the beginning of Salameh Street, and carjacked the driver, stabbing him in the hand, according to police. He then drove for approximately a kilometer down Salameh Street towards the Haoman 17 nightclub, which was filled with high school children at an end-of-summer party.
