On border security, Halevi described legislation he championed following the death of Border Police officer Barel Hadaria Shmueli, who was shot at point-blank range by a terrorist who approached the Gaza border fence. He contended that Israel's leadership has treated borders as something that can be approached freely, rather than as a sovereign national boundary. "For them, the border isn't perceived as a sovereign, national, political matter," he said, describing the prevailing attitude as either utopian ("John Lennon without borders and without flags") or simply negligent. Halevi recounted how security establishment representatives and legal advisors opposed his legislation defining border infiltration as a security offense rather than merely a civil or economic matter. The law ultimately passed, establishing that border penetration constitutes an attack on sovereignty requiring Shin Bet (Israel's internal security service) involvement.