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This image released by the Home Front Command on September 4, 2024, shows a new alert system that will be displayed on televisions. (Israel Defense Forces)
September 4, 2024, 4:39 pm
IDF Home Front Command revamps TV alert system with ‘clearer’ visuals
More alerts can be displayed at once, they will be written in black text on white background, and will pop up on side of content rather than on top of it
By Emanuel Fabian
This illustration issued by the IDF on August 4, 2024, shows a Cell Broadcast alert on a phone. (Israel Defense Forces)
August 4, 2024, 7:14 pm
IDF can now send location-based alerts to phones in case of large-scale attacks
New system can send messages based on positioning of cell towers — not GPS, which has seen disruptions amid ongoing war; IDF says no current changes to instructions for civilians
By Emanuel Fabian
An emergency alert issued by the Canadian province of Ontario reporting an unspecified “incident” at a nuclear plant is shown on a smartphone Sunday, Jan. 12, 2020. Ontario Power Generation later sent a message saying the alert “was sent in error." (Graeme Roy/The Canadian Press via AP)
January 13, 2020, 2:17 am
Canadian officials accidentally push nuclear alert to millions
Early morning cellphone alert warns residents of ‘incident at nuclear plant just east of Toronto,’ more than an hour later, officials send another message admitting error
By Rob Gillies
Ultra-Orthodox Jews return November 19, 2014, to study inside the Jerusalem Har Nof synagogue where two terrorists from East Jerusalem killed five Israelis a day earlier. (Photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 19, 2017, 12:24 pm
Synagogues get Shabbat emergency app for phoneless worshipers
Software developer and first responder groups develop panic button on tablet that also collects dues during the week
By Shoshanna Solomon
Israelis sit and pray together inside a street shelter, in anticipation of the Code Red siren alerting of incoming rockets, in the Southern Israeli town of Nitzan, on the fourth day of Operation Protective Edge, July 11, 2014 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
February 22, 2016, 2:01 pm
IDF releases smartphone app that warns of attacks
Home Front Command’s new application will alert citizens to military strikes, national disasters by geographic location
By Ben Sales
Israeli and American soldiers participate in a joint earthquake drill in Holon on October 21, 2012, in the Turning Point 6 emergency drill (Photo credit: Yossi Zeliger / FLASH90)
July 3, 2014, 4:53 pm
Security app knows where you are when disaster strikes
Israeli security firm eVigilo is the brains behind iOref, the Homefront Command’s emergency mass communications system
By David Shamah
The NowForce app in action (Photo credit: Courtesy)
July 2, 2014, 8:37 am
60,000 Israelis download app to notify of abduction
Mobile application, designed by NowForce, lets users in trouble contact rescue services with the swipe of a finger
By JTA
Israeli and American soldiers participate in a joint earthquake drill in Holon on October 21, 2012, in the Turning Point 6 emergency drill (Photo credit: Yossi Zeliger / FLASH90)
February 11, 2014, 5:38 pm
Alert system’s got your number when emergency strikes
Israeli start-up eVigilo uses every media available to inform people where to go for help in case disaster happens
By David Shamah
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