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Hundreds of Israeli NGO’s provide critical services to the population such as food, health care, and nursing. These services are all the more essential during time of crises. They range in size from national organizations to local centers and everything in between.

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Why would the IDF purposefully expose a wealth of valuable intelligence about Hezbollah military operations in Lebanon? The answer, it seems, lies in a growing recognition that, in the current reality, achieving military victory is insufficient in attaining Israel’s security.

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Despite the broadened scope of last month’s National Emergency Exercise, the resilience to crisis of many of the nation’s most critical and vulnerable business centers was not put to the test. The Azrieli Towers, one of Israel’s central business complexes, were completely irrelevant to the national emergency drill which took place last month to prepare [...]

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The Resilience Team participated last week in a forum of chairpersons and CEOs of the northern partnerships of ‘Partnerships 2000′ of the Jewish Agency. In the forum, held at the Western Galilee College in Acre, the team presented the concept of the ‘Civil Resilience Network.’ The concept calls to consolidate a resilience network, comprising tens [...]

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Today, the Reut Institute is presenting a document entitled: “Civil Resilience Network: A Conceptual Framework for Israel’s Local & National Resilience” at the Sderot Conference on Social Issues. The document was written in cooperation with the Israeli Trauma Coalition and will be presented at the panel entitled – Me, the Home Front and the Next [...]

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Last month, an old man fell unconscious on a street in Tel Aviv. His life was saved thanks to the quick reaction by a security officer working nearby who performed resuscitation using his building’s electric resuscitation machine.  Although this may be a singular incident, it can also be viewed as an example for best practice of [...]

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The Jerusalem Post yesterday featured an article about the recent Reut and ITC’s (NYC UJA funded) policy paper on Israel’s local and national resilience. The article, Home Front Risks Collapse in the Next War, presented the Resilience Network as the main strategy identified by our study for securing the functioning home front during emergencies.

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Government officials recently discussed the required measures in the case of swine flue turning into a national epidemic. It was decided that in the case of 25% of the population being infected and not being able to attend work, the responsibility to deal with the epidemic will shift from the Ministry of Health to the [...]

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Earlier this month, Reut Analysts from the Communities Team attended the National Resilience workshop at ‘Emek Yezreel‘ regional training and activity center which aimed at encouraging the processes of building organizational coordination and mutual partnerships on the local level.

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The conference ‘Community Resilience – the Strength of the Community Dealing with Long-Term Crises’ took place last week and dealt primarily with the issue of emergency preparedness for the Israeli Home Front as well as discussing several models for Resilience Centers.

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