In recent weeks, the Israel Defense Force’s Home Front Command has become a lot more precise when it comes to alerting civilians to rocket and missile attacks.
Instead of 255 alert areas, Israel has now been divided into 1,700 areas, meaning that the disruption caused by projectile alerts will be more localized than ever before.
“We are providing alerts only to those who are under substantial threat. We’re alerting civilians in a more focused manner, selecting the threatened area only for alerts,” Lt. Col. Shlomi Maman, head of the Alert Branch in the Home Front Command, told JNS.

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Joe Biden on Saturday mounted a full-throated defense of his long career in public life, attempting to regain his footing as he expressed regret for recent comments in which he praised his past work with segregationists.
Following weeks of criticism, a drop in the polls and questions about whether he could maintain his support among black voters, Biden told a mostly African American audience in Sumter, South Carolina, that he regretted his recent remarks about working with segregationist senators in the 1970s.