This is the code name for the week-long nation-wide preparedness targil (Hebrew for drill/exercise) being run by Israel's Home Front Command.
At 11:00 this morning the country's 2,300 air raid sirens sounded.I made it a point to be at a public place just then, namely, my Kupat Cholim medical clinic in Jerusalem.
Sure enough, we the public and the staff were instructed to go down the stairs to the basement. I never knew there was a bomb shelter there.
Here is the metal, air-tight door in the picture.
As you can see, the staff had turned the protected space into a kitchen and break room.
T is for time factor!Click to enlarge and you will see that we in and around Jerusalem are in the best location if the missiles begin in-coming from Gaza and/or Syria and Lebanon and/or Iran.
We supposedly will have three whole minutes of warning. Yay!
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To see more about the Turning Point drill and other Facts of [Israeli] Life, please see my previous post. Toda (= thanks)!
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There are some things in life I'm glad I don't have to do...
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Dina, we saw this on the news ! We saw the drill in Jerusalem and it went very fast. Still a terrible idea to live like that. There must be a lot of tension. Take care I will be thinking of you.
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Mother in Israel wrote on her post today that she has two minutes. I guess with three minutes you are living in luxury?
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I just can't imagine living like this. We take so much for granted in the West.
ReplyDeletewhy we subject each other with such pain and hard time .......an we claim to live in a modern world.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if that is a life. I really wonder why man keeps on hurting himself this way.
ReplyDeleteCheers, Dina.
You are really under a lot of pressure and it takes a lot of courage and mental strength and faith to endure that!!
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This World could be such a wonderful place...
I'm really impressed with the refrigerator magnet!...
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Wow! I had no idea.
ReplyDeleteI send thoughts of peace for you and all the region.
Sherry
I know this is serious business. I hear of it all over the news, but I can't help but see humor in turning a bomb shelter into a kitchen. An update of the biblical "plough shares" idea
ReplyDeleteIt must be very frightening to have to live like this. I remember as a young girl during the Cold War having drills for the possibility of a nuclear war--I was certainly frightened at that time. I hope that you never have to use these shelters for an actual emergency.
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I love reading about life in Isreal.
ReplyDeleteI think you are a brave group of people! I cannot imagine living in circumstances that make bomb shelters a common thing.
life in the fast lane?!
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