The national home front exercise is currently being conducted, in cooperation with all security and rescue forces, including the Home Front Command, the National Emergency Authority, the Israel Police, the fire and rescue forces, Magen David Adom, and the ultra-Orthodox rescue organizations.
As part of the exercise, alerts will be activated tomorrow - Wednesday - in many localities across the country, from 10:00 to 11:00, with an emphasis on localities whose defensive times (time to enter the protected area) have recently been changed, and from 18:00 to 19:00 in some of the cities that were split. For several warning zones.
The alerts will be activated on all alerting means - sirens, the Home Front Command app, the national emergency portal, radio stations, television channels and various websites..
For information about the localities where the alerts will be activated and the times when the alerts will be activated, you can go to the National Emergency Portal, to the Alert Map tab - and check whether an alert will be activated in the locality where you live, or call the Home Front Command's call center at 104, say the name of the locality - and receive information about whether an alert will be activated there during the exercise.
In the event that a true alarm is triggered, an additional ascending and descending alarm will sound..
Today, Home Front Command alerts are given in a targeted manner to each locality separately and are activated only in areas where there is a danger to the population. This is in order to reduce the number of alerts that citizens will experience during the campaign, to allow them to continue their daily lives even in an emergency.
In total, there are approximately 1,700 warning zones in Israel. Within this framework, each locality has a defined warning zone under the name of the locality. In addition, 11 cities across the country have been divided into several warning zones, each of which receives a separate warning only when there is a danger to the population living in that area.
As part of the exercise, the alert is activated in cities that have been divided into a number of alert zones, with the aim of familiarizing residents with the division into a number of alert zones, so that they can check which alert zone they live in, and in order to give them tools to distinguish between the different areas in the city.
The cities where an alert will be activated as part of the exercise are Jerusalem, Ashkelon, Rishon LeZion, Ramat Gan, Herzliya, Netanya and Hadera.
The National Home Front Exercise is being held as part of the ongoing improvement of the defense system for the citizens of the State of Israel and emergency preparedness. The exercise simulates multiple scenarios, including Hezbollah firing missiles towards the home front and security forces dealing with riots and disturbances.
""The citizens of the country are partners in the national home front exercise," says Maj. (res.) Danny Cohen, head of the religious-ultra-Orthodox desk in the information branch of the 10th Home Front Command for the Ultra-Orthodox. "As we have seen in recent campaigns, the home front in Israel is a second front, as a result of the enemy's intentions to harm the population by firing rockets and missiles. It is our responsibility today to carry out the necessary preparations for an emergency and to ensure that we know how to act in the event.".
He said, "Past experience teaches that maintaining vigilance and taking proper precautions when receiving a warning saves lives. It is important that we all know how to act in an emergency. To this end, we must already take 3 life-saving steps in the exercise today: A. Know how to receive the warning and the time available to defend ourselves B. Choose and prepare the most protected space available C. Know how to act when receiving a warning to protect our lives and the lives of our families.".
Cohen notes that the ability to accurately predict the warning requires residents to take the warning received in their area with the utmost seriousness. Therefore, it is incumbent on everyone to recognize and know on a daily basis what their warning area is and by what means they receive the warning.
""People who knew how to act in an emergency saved their lives and the lives of their loved ones," Cohen adds. "We have an opportunity now to prevent the next disaster. In recent times, there has been peace throughout the country and no warnings, but we must be prepared for any scenario.".
""A warning may sound at any given moment. We must know wherever we are where the protected space is. The preparatory actions are few and simple, and they save lives. All of these are in the form of "and you will be saved for your souls." And God forbid we become complacent and indulge in excess, so that we will not be shouting about the past. Let us prepare ourselves in advance and, God willing, we will preserve our lives and our safety."".
.All information can be obtained on the Home Front Command platforms - the National Emergency Portal, the Home Front Command app, the dedicated call center for the Haredi sector, which is numbered 104, extension 6, via text message or WhatsApp to 052-9104104, and on the official pages on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Telegram.
For entry toHome Front Command portal for the ultra-Orthodox public
10:05 - כפר כמא, קריית ים, קריית אתא ואזור תעשייה כרמיאל. 10:15 - עכו, יבניאל, כרמיאל, שפרעם, מגדל וקריית ביאליק. 10:25 - עומר ולקייה - The defense time in these communities is shortened to one minute.. 10:35 - האון, תל קציר, מעגן, שער גולן, מסדה, מכללת כנרת ואזור תעשייה צמח (מועצה אזורית עמק הירדן) - The defense time in these localities has been extended to 30 seconds.. 10:45 - גשור, נאות גולן, גבעת יואב-בני יהודה, כפר חרוב, מבוא חמה וחמת גדר (מועצה אזורית גולן), געתון, יחיעם ועברון (מועצה אזורית מטה אשר), עמיר, כפר סאלד, להבות הבשן, גונן ושמיר (מועצה אזורית גליל עליון), וכפר ורדים - The defense time in these localities has been extended to 15 seconds.. 18:05 - ירושלים-צפון, אשקלון-צפון, פארק תעשיות פלמחים, רמת גן-מערב וחדרה-מערב. 18:15 - ירושלים-מזרח, ירושלים-כפר עקב, אשקלון-דרום, הרצליה-מרכז וגליל ים, ראשון לציון-מזרח וחדרה-נווה חיים. 18:25 - ירושלים-מרכז, אזור תעשייה צפוני אשקלון, ראשון לציון-מערב וחדרה-מרכז. 18:35 - ירושלים-מערב, אזור תעשייה דרומי אשקלון, הרצליה-מערב, ונתניה-מערב. 18:45 - ירושלים-דרום, אזור תעשייה עטרות, רמת גן-מזרח, נתניה-מזרח וחדרה-מזרח.
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