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Israeli air defenses intercept a missile fired from Yemen on July 1, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 1, 2025, 10:44 pm
IDF intercepts missile from Yemen, two from Gaza after sirens blare across Israel
Attacks didn’t cause injuries, military says; Katz warns Houthis that ‘Yemen will be treated like Tehran’ as US envoy to Israel says ‘maybe those B2 bombers need to visit Yemen!’
By Stav Levaton and Jacob Magid
Israelis take cover inside a bomb shelter as sirens sound in Tel Aviv, December 16, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
December 16, 2024, 6:55 pm
Houthi ballistic missile triggers sirens in Tel Aviv and across central Israel
IDF says missile shot down outside country, with sirens sounding to warn of possible falling shrapnel; 5 injured while running for shelter
By Emanuel Fabian
An air raid alert is broadcast in Russia, triggered by hackers according to officials, February 28, 2023. (Twitter video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
February 28, 2023, 2:42 pm
Russia says hackers set off false air raid alerts on TV, radio
Warnings broadcast in Belgorod, Voronezh regions near Ukraine, and annexed Crimea; similar cyberattack triggered sirens last week
By AFP
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
Illustrative image: Children sit 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. (Flash 90)
October 18, 2021, 7:54 pm
IDF blames human error for false rocket alarm in south
Military says alert system functioning fine after sirens accidentally sounded in Ashkelon and nearby towns
By Judah Ari Gross
Israelis run for cover as air raid sirens sound in the Israeli city of Sderot on March 12, 2014. (AFP/DAVID BUIMOVITCH)
April 15, 2021, 9:15 pm
Gaza rocket strikes field in south as Independence Day comes to a close
No reports of injuries or damage as projectile hits empty area, amid general lull in violence from Strip; IDF strikes Hamas targets in response
By Judah Ari Gross
Illustrative: Soldiers from the IDF Home Front Command work in a command center used to oversee the country's alert system in an undated photograph. (Israel Defense Forces)
December 1, 2019, 10:49 pm
IDF hails new siren system as success after Gaza flareup, plans further upgrades
IDF Home Front Command says pinpoint alarms allowed half a million Israelis to go about their lives last month, instead of running to bomb shelters unnecessarily
By Judah Ari Gross
Illustrative. Children run toward a bomb shelter in the southern Israeli town of Kiryat Malachi during a November 2012 military operation in Gaza, known as Pillar of Defense. (Yuval Haker/Israel Defense Forces)
November 10, 2019, 12:41 pm
Rocket sirens to sound in countrywide test later this month
Army announces first national check of recently upgraded alarm system on November 26-28
By Judah Ari Gross
Illustrative: An Israeli family takes cover in a bomb shelter made of a converted concrete pipe during the 2014 Gaza war. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)
June 12, 2019, 1:45 pm
IDF rolls out new siren system to warn more precisely of incoming attacks
Alarms based on individual towns — or neighborhoods, in some cases — as opposed to old system that operated based on larger regions
By Judah Ari Gross
A man walks near an open bomb shelter in the northern Israeli city of Safed on December 4, 2018. (David Cohen/Flash90)
May 20, 2019, 10:07 am
IDF tests new pinpointed rocket alert system in northern Israel
Sirens to sound in individual towns, as opposed to old system that operated based on larger regions; army says test unrelated to Iran tensions
By Judah Ari Gross
A view of IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
May 7, 2019, 1:49 pm
Siren error causes confusion in Tel Aviv
Residents on edge days after major Gaza conflagration; IDF says klaxon activated by mistake, is looking into the incident
By ToI Staff
Thai foreign workers standing in a mobile bomb shelter at Moshav Beit HaGadi in the Southern Israel on August 20, 2014. (Edi Israel/Flash90)
November 4, 2018, 6:42 pm
Sirens blare in southern Israel in false alarm amid reports of ceasefire
Thousands of residents of Sderot, Sha’ar Hanegev region rush to bomb shelters after alarms apparently triggered by fireworks in Gaza
By Judah Ari Gross
Israeli troops uncover a Hamas attack tunnel that penetrated Israeli territory on October 11, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)
October 11, 2018, 7:52 pm
IDF releases footage of Gaza tunnel discovery, destruction
Israeli military liaison to Palestinians accuses Hamas of diverting funds from Strip’s residents for use in its terrorist activities
By Judah Ari Gross
The interior of a Hamas attack tunnel that penetrated Israeli territory and was destroyed by the Israeli military on October 11, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)
October 11, 2018, 1:24 pm
IDF demolishes Gaza attack tunnel that penetrated 200 meters into Israel
Military says kilometer-long tunnel dug by Hamas terror group from the city of Khan Younis in the southern Strip is the 15th destroyed by Israel since last year
By Judah Ari Gross
Israeli soldiers walk near an Iron Dome defense system, designed to intercept and destroy incoming short-range rockets and artillery shells on August 9, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Jack GUEZ)
October 11, 2018, 10:19 am
Southern residents scramble as Iron Dome activates accidentally
Army says air defense system triggered due to an ‘incorrect identification,’ setting off sirens; false alarm comes as IDF engages in undisclosed ‘security activities’ in area
By Judah Ari Gross
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