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Home Front Command drills

OneDay volunteers from the Hefer Valley in central Israel during training to become emergency rescue workers. (Courtesy, OneDay)
June 16, 2026, 6:14 am
Jarred by Israel’s lack of readiness, volunteer rescuers train for quake they know is coming
With country 99 years into century-long cycle but still well behind on reinforcing structures, social org prepares civilian teams to dig through rubble of thousands of buildings predicted to collapse in temblor
By Sue Surkes
IDF Home Front Command soldiers escort mock victims into the Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital in Jerusalem, during a drill, December 15, 2022. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)
December 15, 2022, 10:37 pm
IDF drills at Jerusalem hospital for potential war, heavy rocket attacks on capital
Home Front Command simulates missile hitting Hadassah Ein Kerem medical center, mass casualties from strikes, in scenario representing multi-front battle with Lebanon, Gaza Strip
By Emanuel Fabian
Illustrative: A young girl inside a bomb shelter in Tel Aviv. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
May 16, 2022, 9:00 am
IDF tests air raid warning sirens, holds military drills in Tel Aviv, Haifa
Military asks residents of those cities to enter bomb shelters as part of drill on what to do if Israel comes under attack
By Emanuel Fabian
Israelis run to shelters as rocket warning sirens goes off during a Jerusalem Day march on May 10, 2021, after Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip fire rockets toward Israel. (AP/Ariel Schalit)
March 29, 2022, 5:53 am
Rocket warning sirens sound across Jerusalem in Home Front Command drill
Missile warnings ring out between 10:05 and 10:45 am in various neighborhoods of the capital
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
The aftermath of the 1927 earthquake in Jerusalem, with the Dome of the Rock in the background. (photo credit: public domain via Library of Congress)
February 8, 2022, 3:00 am
Israel gets new earthquake warning system, sends alert within seconds of 1st tremor
TRUAA system, trialed since 2014 at Geological Survey of Israel, linked to Home Front Command late last month so that early earthquake warnings can be relayed to public
By Sue Surkes
Israelis sit and pray together inside a street shelter during the 2014 Gaza war in southern Israel on July 11, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
November 2, 2021, 5:45 pm
IDF to test air raid sirens nationwide on Wednesday
One round of alarms to be heard starting at 10 a.m. and another starting at 6 p.m. as part of home front preparedness drill
By Judah Ari Gross
A priest walks in the Church of the Nativity compound in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on March 8, 2020, after it came under lockdown two days ago as an emergency measure to limit the spread of the novel coronavirus. (Musa Al SHAER / AFP)
March 9, 2020, 12:35 am
Israel says all visitors to Bethlehem in past 2 weeks must self-quarantine
Directive by Health Ministry comes as defense minister mulls full closure of West Bank to contain COVID-19 outbreak
By ToI Staff
Defense Minister Naftali Bennett visits an IDF Home Front Command exercise simulating the spread of the coronavirus on March 8, 2020. (Defense Ministry)
March 8, 2020, 7:53 pm
Israel may place general closure on West Bank to keep virus at bay
Defense minister visits IDF exercise simulating widespread outbreak of coronavirus; says there’s not yet a pandemic, seeming to contradict PM
By Judah Ari Gross
Houses are seen in the West Bank settlement of Efrat on November 27, 2018. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)
February 17, 2020, 9:15 am
Air raid sirens to sound in West Bank test
Home Front command says drill planned in advance as part of program for 2020; in event of actual attack, sirens will sound twice
By ToI Staff
Knesset Honor Guard members take part in a drill simulating an attack on the Israeli parliament, December 19, 2019 (YouTube screenshot, Ynet)
December 20, 2019, 10:34 am
Knesset Guard drills for missile attack on parliament, rescue of wounded MKs
Making use of the election recess, members of the security force simulate emergency scenarios at Home Front Command training site
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Members of the Knesset Honor Guard, Home Front Command, Firefighters, IDF, and Israel Police, participate in an emergency drill simulating a drone attack on the Knesset territory with a chemical substance, on June 16, 2016. (Yaniv Nadav/Flash90)
December 16, 2019, 6:30 am
IDF warns of sirens, explosions in Jerusalem-area emergency drill
Military says exercises were pre-scheduled as part of 2019 work plan aimed at ensuring operational readiness; drill expected to last until Wednesday evening
By ToI Staff
Firefighters extinguish a blaze in a car during an IDF exercise simulating a rocket attack in the Kfar Adumim settlement in the central West Bank on December 11, 2019. (Judah Ari Gross/The Times of Israel)
December 15, 2019, 7:51 pm
West Bank settlements simulate string of disasters to train for the real thing
In large-scale drill, Binyamin region practices response to a deadly Gaza rocket attack, back-to-back shootings, and a contaminated water supply — all in the span of a few hours
By Judah Ari Gross
A cow stands in a field overlooking the Sea of Galilee, northern Israel, on February 18, 2017. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
July 7, 2018, 8:15 am
New minor earthquake felt around the Sea of Galilee
Measuring 3.4 on Richter scale, tremor is the latest in string of quakes to hit northern Israel this week
By ToI Staff
Members of the Knesset Honor Guard, Home Front Command, firefighters, IDF, Israel Police and Magen David Adom Emergency Medical Services participate in an emergency drill simulating an earthquake at the Knesset, Jerusalem, June 13, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
July 5, 2018, 4:36 pm
After quakes, defense minister says earthquake protection plan ready to go
As five temblors hit northern Israel in two days, Avigdor Liberman reveals new plan to go before cabinet this month
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative. A Boeing 747 El Al plane. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
May 8, 2018, 11:59 am
Ben Gurion Airport drills mass casualty event
1,000 workers from airport, emergency services, air force, police and Home Front Command participate in exercise
By ToI Staff
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