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An apartment building on Steinberg street in Beersheba. (screen capture: Google Maps Street View)
June 7, 2019, 8:28 am
Teen girl dies after falling from sixth-story apartment
Unclear how Beersheba girl fell during night but family member says it may have been related to attempt to open window to let in cool air
By TOI staff
Illustrative: A worker on a rooftop at a construction site in Jerusalem, August 5, 2015 (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
November 1, 2018, 4:21 pm
Labor federation threatens general strike over work safety standards
Action would see all government offices, local authorities, banks, emergency services and airports shut next Wednesday if the government doesn’t agree to demands for improvements
By Stuart Winer
Salamandra Zone's B-Air unit fits on top of elevators and purifies air during emergencies. (YouTube screenshot)
October 9, 2018, 10:49 am
Skyscrapers should look to elevators as escape routes, Israeli startup says
Salamandra Zone’s B-Air system provides clean, cool air to elevator cabs during fires, keeping residents alive and safe
By Luke Tress
View of the train and tracks during a test drive of the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv high-speed train in central Israel on January 16, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
September 3, 2018, 6:44 pm
Disasters drilled on Jerusalem-Ben Gurion fast rail ahead of opening in 3 weeks
Israel Railways mounts exercises to extract ‘blaze victims’ from Israel’s longest tunnel, evacuate injured from underground platform
By Sue Surkes
CSS has trained over 4,000 volunteers across the country to protect Jewish organizations. (Courtesy of CSS/via JTA)
November 15, 2017, 4:34 am
Organization training thousands of Jewish volunteers to keep synagogues safe
Community Security Service focuses on training US community members to spot suspicious behavior and thus avert potential attacks
By Josefin Dolsten
Alon Tal
April 19, 2017, 2:51 pm
Alon Tal
Freedom from fear in Haifa
Israeli scientists convinced the public of the risk of far more potentially explosive ammonia than the country uses
The ammonia storage tank in the northern city of Haifa. (Courtesy of Environmental Protection Ministry)
March 7, 2017, 9:49 pm
Chemical firm says hundreds will lose jobs unless compensated over ammonia tank
With April 1 deadline approaching, Haifa Group demands government shoulder costs of relocating its storage facility
By Tamar Pileggi
Illustrative: Staff at Camp Harlam in Pennsylvania. (Courtesy of Camp Harlam/via JTA)
February 20, 2017, 5:03 am
Security at summer camps: What you need to know
While the rate of reported incidents is low, security experts employ a dynamic range of tactics against a variety of potential threats
By Ben Harris
Haifa's industrial zone. The ammonia tank is visible on the jetty jutting into the sea at the right. (Shay Levy/Flash90)
January 31, 2017, 7:22 pm
Hundreds of thousands of lives in danger from Haifa ammonia operation: report
12,000-ton storage container could ‘fall apart tomorrow’ or be attacked in a war, expert warns, creating a toxic suffocating cloud; managing company dismisses ‘fear-mongering’
By Stuart Winer
Police sappers destroy fireworks confiscated during a drugs bust, at a quarry in central Israel in January 2017 (courtesy of Israel Police)
January 19, 2017, 7:47 pm
Police blow up 10 tons of confiscated fireworks
Sappers destroy pyrotechnics discovered in drugs bust, say blast in isolated quarry comparable to 1 ton of TNT
By TOI staff
A new tsunami warning sign placed at the Ashkelon beach in time for a national drill on April 4, 2016. (Ashkelon Municipality)
April 4, 2016, 2:43 pm
Emergency services drill tsunami along southern coast
‘Tsunami Hazard Zone’ signs bearing emergency escape routes to be placed on Israeli beaches in coming months
By Tamar Pileggi
Israelis do yoga on an empty Tel Aviv street, on Yom Kippur, on September 23 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash 90)
September 23, 2015, 9:17 pm
Minor violence as sweltering Yom Kippur comes to an end
2,220 people treated by medical teams for bike injuries, dehydration; several stone-throwing incidents reported
By TOI staff
Member of Belgian and French police stay next to a Thalys train at the Brussels Midi - Zuid train station, on Saturday, August 22, 2015. Security has become more visible after an attack on Friday of a Thalys train traveling from Amsterdam to Paris. (Francois Walschaerts/AP)
August 26, 2015, 2:19 pm
EU ministers to discuss improving security after train attack
Officials to consider ‘concrete proposals’ to improve public transportation safety, as suspect is charged with terrorism
By AP and AFP
Israeli soldiers secure the scene after a Palestinian man wounded an Israeli soldier with a knife at a crossing between Israel and West Bank north of Jerusalem, August 15, 2015. (AP/Mahmoud Illean)
August 21, 2015, 9:53 am
New tools, new complications in fight to keep cities safe
After Bangkok bombing, a look at what places like Jerusalem, which can see over 3.5 million travelers annually, must contend with
By Tim Sullivan
Israeli celebrity chef Haim Cohen in public safety video for Beterem – Safe Kids Israel (YouTube/Beterem)
May 28, 2015, 5:13 pm
Burning pizza video warns how summer heat turns cars into ovens
In public safety clip, celebrity chef highlights dangers of leaving children in parked vehicles; 16 kids have died this way in Israel since 2008
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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