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| By Ynetnews February 5, 2007 |
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The state should set up a "national emergency authority" to deal with the home front's preparedness for disasters, said the parliamentary subcommittee investigating the home front's readiness for emergency situations.
The subcommittee, which reports to the Knesset's Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee and will formally present its report to committee members on Monday, recommended that the national emergency authority fall under the jurisdiction of the Internal Security Ministry.
The subcommittee recommended a number of structural changes in home front defense, among them the consolidation of responsibility for the issue, which is currently handled by a number of sources.
"Subordination of the Home Front Command to the defense ministry is inherently problematic since there may be a conflict of interests between the needs of the civilians and the needs of the military, particularly regarding allocation of supplies, and this conflict is currently resolved by the Ministry of Defense," they said.
The report further recommended granting the internal security minister the power to declare a special situation in the home front.
Members of the subcommittee called for the creation of both a special ministerial committee to oversee home front preparedness both during peace and wartime and a Knesset committee focused on internal security, which would deal with the legislative and monitoring aspects of home front readiness during emergencies.
Committee chairman Knesset Member Ami Ayalon wrote that the subcommittee had read several previous reports from the past decade and a half, "Which pretty much all came to the same conclusions regarding the insufficiency of the current structure of the home front system."
"My impression is that, had the government paid attention to these previous recommendations and implemented them, we could have spared ourselves many of the gruesome pictures of the last war," he continued.
Reprinted with permission from Ynet. |
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