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IDF Home Front Command updates application's alert system for clarity in emergency situations

The IDF Home Front Command revamped its mobile and smart TV alerts with color-coded warnings, dedicated sounds, and clearer instructions to help citizens respond faster in emergencies.

Israel's Home Front Command app; illustrative.
 A man wearing a Jewish prayer shawl looks out of the damaged entranceway to a building, as rockets are launched from the Gaza Strip, in Ashkelon, southern Israel October 7, 2023.

I finished reading the Torah in a bomb shelter, while my kids huddled in their safe room

 The scene where a rocket fired from Gaza into Southern Israel, hit and caused damaged in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon. October 7, 2023.

Opposition leaders share message of solidarity as terror escalates

 ASHKELON RESIDENTS wait in a bomb shelter with a pet dog as sirens wail during a rocket attack from Gaza on Wednesday.

Despite constant rocket threat, many Israelis remain without adequate access to shelters


Artist turns Gaza rockets shrapnel into Menorahs and Judaica

"The idea of turning rockets into menorahs and hanukkiyot is turning the symbol of death and destruction into a symbol of light, and hanukkiyah is the symbol of light," Bob said.

Israeli metal sculptor Yaron Bob looks at remains of rockets and mortar shells fired into Israel by Palestinian militants from Gaza, outside his studio in Yated, southern Israel

Netanyahu lacks strategy but made the right decision

Why was toppling Hamas the objective 10 years ago, but not for the last decade since Netanyahu has been in office? What changed?

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during an annual state memorial ceremony for Israel's first prime minister, David Ben Gurion, at his gravesite in Sde Boker Israel November 14, 2018

IDF soldier in critical condition after rocket strikes bus

More than 80 rockets have been fired from Gaza into Israel.

Israeli security forces and firefighters gather near a bus set ablaze after it was hit by a rocket fired from the Palestinian enclave, at the Israel-Gaza border near the kibbutz of Kfar Aza, on November 12, 2018. Israel's military said it was carrying out air strikes "throughout the Gaza Strip" on M

Analysis: IDF’s new missile corps will revolutionize how Israel wages war

Years from now, it will also likely be looked at as one of the most significant decisions Avigdor Liberman will have made as Israel’s defense minister.

An Israeli mobile artillery unit fires during a combined forces drill in Shizafon military base, near Eilat in southern Israel June 7, 2016

Netanyahu declares ‘war’ on those who throw rocks and firebombs

PM visits site where rock-throwing allegedly led to accident in which an Israeli was killed in Jerusalem.

Netanyahu visits road 443