The emergency center, located in the Mateh Asher region, was funded mostly by the Jewish community of Indianapolis as part of the Jewish Agency’s “Partnership 2000” project, which twins cities in Israel with those in the Diaspora and fosters relations between them.
The new center will coordinate security for educational institutions, be a roving security watch for agricultural areas, and respond to any security-related problem, 24 hours a day. The building, constructed according to exacting Home Front Command standards, includes advanced computer and communication networks, which keep pace in real-time with the security forces – IDF, MDA, firefighters and police.
"The center was built with the primary purpose of addressing the security needs of this region, which is on the northern border and has fully half of its communities designated as 'confrontation-line' towns," said Yehuda Shavit, the president of the Matteh Asher regional council (pictured). "We need to be able to maintain communication with the different security arms, such as the IDF, the police and the local security coordinators of the various townships. Of course, it is our earnest hope that the system will be needed mainly for municipal civil emergencies and not because of any military or terrorist threat."
Other projects funded by Partnership 2000 communities include equipment for the emergency room of a western Galilee hospital, a community police station in Acco (Acre), tuition support for western Galilee college students who participate in campus security patrolling and other projects.
The new center will coordinate security for educational institutions, be a roving security watch for agricultural areas, and respond to any security-related problem, 24 hours a day. The building, constructed according to exacting Home Front Command standards, includes advanced computer and communication networks, which keep pace in real-time with the security forces – IDF, MDA, firefighters and police.
"The center was built with the primary purpose of addressing the security needs of this region, which is on the northern border and has fully half of its communities designated as 'confrontation-line' towns," said Yehuda Shavit, the president of the Matteh Asher regional council (pictured). "We need to be able to maintain communication with the different security arms, such as the IDF, the police and the local security coordinators of the various townships. Of course, it is our earnest hope that the system will be needed mainly for municipal civil emergencies and not because of any military or terrorist threat."
Other projects funded by Partnership 2000 communities include equipment for the emergency room of a western Galilee hospital, a community police station in Acco (Acre), tuition support for western Galilee college students who participate in campus security patrolling and other projects.