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Tel Aviv bomb shelters

Israelis take cover in a public shelter in Tel Aviv as a siren sounds warning of incoming ballistic missiles fired from Iran toward Israel, March 1, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
March 2, 2026, 8:18 pm
Israel’s public shelters again become sites of camaraderie amid steep danger
War-battered Israelis eagerly await the war’s end, but aren’t sparing the humor as they gear up to celebrate the festive Purim holiday under ongoing Iranian missile barrages
By Deborah Danan
People gather at the bomb shelter in Tel Aviv's Basel Square during a missile alert on February 28, 2026. (Ben Sales/Times of Israel)
February 28, 2026, 11:24 pm
‘We meet again’: Inside the ‘pajama party’ at a north Tel Aviv bomb shelter
The denizens of this shelter came for safety. But what they found was the impromptu community created when dozens of Israelis are packed together underground, waiting out a war
By Ben Sales
Skyscrapers line the skyline of Tel Aviv, April 18, 2018. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
December 26, 2018, 8:41 am
Army to test rocket siren throughout Tel Aviv metropolitan area
Alert to sound at 10:05 a.m. on Wednesday; military says previously scheduled test not related to Tuesday night’s missile fired from Syria
By ToI Staff
Morad Stern
September 15, 2014, 7:56 pm
Morad Stern
Open data under fire: The government didn’t act, so we did
No one had ever bothered to put together an easily accessible database of bomb shelters in Israel – until Operation Protective Edge
Israelis take cover in an underground parking garage as siren sounds during rocket attack fired by Palestinian militants from Gaza in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, July 10, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Oded Balilty)
July 10, 2014, 3:50 pm
In Tel Aviv, keep calm and tip the sushi guy
In Israel’s cosmopolitan heart, ongoing rocket fire is shaking the public, but not enough to screw up routines
By Debra Kamin
A Tel Aviv mother and her son clean a municipal shelter in the city on November 16, 2012. after a rocket was fired on the region for the second time in the last two days (photo credit: Gidon Markowicz/Flash90)
From the WebNovember 16, 2012, 11:05 pm
Home Front Command: Prepare for 7 weeks of fighting
Ynet News: Regional council heads in range of Gaza rockets instructed to ready emergency supplies, public bomb shelters, as Operation Pillar of Defense looks to enter ground phase
An underground parking lot at the Habima national theater in Tel Aviv that can be used as a bomb shelter for 1600 people. (photo credit: AP)
August 15, 2012, 8:16 pm
Tel Aviv designates 60 underground parking lots and garages to serve as bomb shelters for 800,000
Newly approved facilities, which meet Home Front Command standards, add to 241 existing public shelters
By Greg Tepper
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