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.
Posts Tagged ‘Home Front’
NGOs cooperate emergency preparedness at JDC-ELKA seminar
Posted in Home Front, National Security, tagged civil resilience network, Culture of Preparedness, Home Front, National Resilience, resilience, Resilient Communities on November 17, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Synchronized victories: Political-diplomatic arena on the security agenda
Posted in Basic Delegitimacy, Home Front, National Security, tagged Basic Delegitimacy, Goldstone Report, Hezbollah, Home Front, IDF, Lawfare, National Security on July 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
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.
Azrieli’s Irrelevance to the National Emergency Exercise
Posted in Home Front, National Security, tagged Azrieli Towers, business sector, Culture of Preparedness, Home Front, National Emergency, National Security, turning point 4 on June 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Partnership 2000 – Major Catalyst in the Civil Resilience Network
Posted in Home Front, tagged civil resilience network, Home Front, local and national resilience, partnership 2000, reut institute on February 24, 2010 | 2 Comments »
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 [...]
Reut Presents Civilian Resilience at Sderot
Posted in About Reut, Home Front, tagged About Reut, Civilian Resilience, Culture of Preparedness, Home Front on November 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Culture of Preparedness in Israeli Society
Posted in Home Front, tagged civil resilience network, Home Front, National Resilience, resilience on November 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
The Media discusses Reut’s Resilience Network Study
Posted in Home Front, National Security, tagged communities, Home Front, National Resilience, network, resilience net on September 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
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.
Resilience Network – Confronting Swine Flu
Posted in Home Front, National Security, tagged health, Home Front, local resilience, National Resilience, National Security, resilience network, swine flue on September 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
State-Society Partnerships as a Foundation for National Resilience
Posted in About Reut, tagged Culture of Preparedness, Home Front, National Resilience on July 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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.
Tri-Sectoral Encounters at the ‘Community Resilience’ Conference
Posted in Home Front, National Security, tagged Culture of Preparedness, Home Front, Israeli Trauma Coalition, Muli Lahad, Partnerships, resilience, Tali Levanon on June 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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.

