At a Cabinet meeting convened Wednesday evening—the first since the launch of Operation Am KeLavi—ministers received a comprehensive security briefing on the ongoing military operations deep inside Tehran.
During the meeting, Deputy Minister Uri Maklev raised his voice in protest, accusing the Home Front Command of neglecting the chareidi public when it comes to emergency alerts. Maklev said that users of kosher phones are not receiving real-time alerts from the Home Front Command. He noted that the Reshut Ha’chareidit (Chareidi Affairs Division) in the Prime Minister’s Office had already reached out with practical solutions, but the Home Front Command has been ignoring the matter.
“Why is the chareidi public not receiving emergency alerts like other citizens?” Maklev asked Defense Minister Yisroel Katz. “Chareidi municipal leaders and residents are turning to us. The chareidi public is not connected to conventional media outlets and is unaware of incoming alerts. The Reshut Ha’chareidit in the Prime Minister’s Office presented viable solutions, yet the Home Front Command continues to disregard them.”
In response, the Defense Minister assured the Cabinet that he would personally address the issue.
Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi also joined the discussion, raising a related concern: the need to implement the “silent wave” alert system on national radio stations throughout the country—including in areas outside the north and south. He, too, said this issue is being overlooked.
{Matzav.com Israel}
The Chareidi public is the black sheep and all the government cares about is to draft them into the Shmad Army.
Do you get amber alerts in AMerica on your Kosher device? How about on all the radio stations? NO. Maybe they need to create something that is easier for the Command structure to work with, rather then act like the low lives in America who expect everyone to do for them. Just wondering? Create their own system that goes off when the home front sends a mesage out.
My family in Jerusalem have kosher phones and they’re always alerted. So what’s he saying?