The City’s emergency prep. 11.19.12 20:00

The Home Front Command instructions and guidance has not changed and is to carry on daily life behaviors. Studies in the city’s school system are held as usual. Updates around the clock will be available throughout.

Due to the escalation and expansion of the range of rocket fire from the Gaza Strip, tonight the Modiin Municipality in coordination with representatives of the IDF Home Front Command (HFC) met tonight, Saturday 11/17/12 for further evaluation.

The guidelines of the HFC instructions is to carry on daily life routines. We urge residents to remain calm, to pay careful attention to Authority guidelines, HFC and other security agencies if necessary.

Curriculum in all schools in the city will take place tomorrow, Sunday, 18/11/12 as usual. If there will be any change, further message will follow.


Residents interested in hosting families from the South are invited to contact the municipality’s call center 106 or Email address: ronit_s@modiin.muni.il

Regular updates throughout the day will be advertized on the web site of the City of Modiin.

The city of Modiin-Macabim-Reut is one of the most advanced and one of the more prepared city in the case of an emergency. The Resident’s Service department and the Defense Department are engaged all year long in an emergency preparation for any kind of emergency such as: water crisis, earthquakes and natural disasters, security incidents and missile attacks.

The municipality holds continuous contact with all relevant city institutions including schools, public institutions and centers, and places meant for large amounts of people. As part of the municipality’s constant preparatory processes the past three years, the city held series of exercises, assessments, field training, equipment purchases, upgrading the emergency urban center and more.

Two months ago, the HFC and the National Emergency Association (NEA), held a city inspection testing it’s emergency preparedness for a national emergency where the municipality scored 91 points.

In Macabim and Reut currently are 39 public shelters that were inspected and found fit, locks were replaced and keys were distributed to the residents. Those shelters are ready for emergency and each resident has a shelter available to him close to his residence.

The municipality remains in close contact with the residents’ representatives of the shelters who are in charge of the public shelters’ maintenance, equipment and opening the shelters in the case of an emergency. If and When there will be a change in the threat level or in the security situation of the country, there is a clear process of transition and more intense emergency preparation according to an organized plan. The municipality is working in full cooperation with the HFC and the NEA to be prepared for any possible scenario.