This morning (Tuesday), an emergency preparedness exercise will be held by the Home Front Command in Jerusalem. As part of the exercise, rising and falling sirens will be activated in several areas of the city and alerts will be received in the Home Front Command app.
Residents are asked to practice entering protected areas during the sirens and to verify their readiness for emergencies.
The city of Jerusalem is divided into several alert areas, to reduce the number of alerts to residents in an emergency. Below are the areas and hours when the alerts will be activated:
• At 10:05 - North Jerusalem.
• At 10:15 - South Jerusalem and the Atarot Industrial Zone.
• At 10:25 - East Jerusalem.
• At 10:35 - West Jerusalem and Kfar Akev.
• At 10:45 - Central Jerusalem.
If a true alert is activated, you will hear an additional rising and falling alarm.