Israel
PM Netanyahu to Submit NIS 800 Million Allocation for Emergency
Preparedness
By
Joel Leyden
Israel News Agency
Jerusalem,
Israel ---- January 5, 2011 ...... Part of the above was communicated
by the Israel Prime Ministers Media Adviser to the Israel
News Agency.
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will submit for Cabinet
approval an NIS 800 million (200 USD million) allocation to prepare
the home front for disasters and emergency situations.
According to the decision, NIS 350 million will be allocated for
earthquake preparedness and rehabilitating the Home Front Command's
fire fighting abilities. The allocation will also serve for establishing
emergency centers in the local council areas, a communications
network for emergency bodies and acquiring equipment for the evacuation
of 400,000 people.
An additional NIS 350 million will be allocated by the Israel
Cabinet to the Fire Service and for the establishment of an aerial
firefighting force. NIS 100 million will serve as a supplement
to be used for these same goals in emergency situations, according
to need.
Responsibility for the Fire service will be transferred from the
Interior Ministry to the Public Security Ministry' legislation
to this effect will be advanced.
An authority, led by the Israel Director-General of the Public
Security Ministry, will be responsible for the establishment of
a national fire service by the end of 2012. The authority will
advance legislation regarding a national fire service law by October
2011 and will conduct a dialogue with the firefighters' unions.
It will be recalled that the team of Israel director-generals
approved an allocation of NIS 80 million in assistance for those
communities that were damaged in the Carmel wildfire and in order
to provide rental assistance for families whose homes were burnt.
On Sunday, 2.1.11, the Cabinet approved the transfer of NIS 15
million to rehabilitate and upgrade infrastructures in the aforesaid
communities.
Forty-five
people died in the recent Carmel fire blaze, including Israel's
most senior female police officer in the forest fires that ravaged
the north of Israel.
The cost of the fire disaster was estimated to be around £350m.
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered a payment
of about £440 to each person who is unable to return to
their home within a month because of fire damage. The sum is intended
to cover basic and urgent necessities, including clothing and
school books.
About 18,000
people were evacuated from their homes, and about 5,000 hectares
(12,000 acres) were destroyed in a massive fire that Israel was
not prepared for.
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