In light of the spread of the Corona, the defense establishment is demanding that the incident be managed from the Ministry of Health • An order for the operation of natural disaster events has been updated, and now includes preparedness for extreme situations where the army will be required to run the economy and enforce the law • Security factor: "This is not the time for ego considerations"

The security system requires immediate responsibility for handling the Corona crisis. Senior officials have made it clear that the IDF is "ready and ready to do so" and that any delay may cost human lives.

The IDF has in recent days accelerated the readiness for the security system to deal with the Corona crisis. This is despite the fact that at this stage it has been explicitly stated that the issue is the responsibility of the Ministry of Health, and the Ministry of Defense - mainly through the Home Front Command - is only an auxiliary factor.

The IDF has been prepared independently to be prepared in the event that the Ministry of Health finds it difficult to continue to handle the event, especially if the number of patients drops significantly in the coming days and to prevent loss of crisis control.

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As part of the preparations, the IDF updated the special operation to deal with natural disaster events, which was originally called a "summer cage" and has now been renamed the "Light Fund". The command also includes readiness for extreme situations where the IDF will be required to manage the entire civilian economy in the country. To control the population.

The IDF hopes that the police will enforce the closure and directives on the residents, but should the situation deteriorate, the country will be divided into areas of responsibility for military headquarters. In this way, divisions will be given responsibility for entire areas, and divisions of cities and battalions will operate under them.

At the same time as preparations for responsibility for the Corona crisis, the IDF and the Ministry of Defense continue to seek solutions to the problems and deficiencies that currently exist in certain areas.

In the Special Operations Unit, for example, they are involved in the conversion of respirators, and at the same time producing thousands of opaque masks a day. Other teams are developing applications that will serve the population. A parallel effort is being made by the Ministry of Defense (through the appendix overseas), to locate And the purchase of essential medical equipment that is missing from the warehouses, and bringing it to Israel.

"The Requested Decision"

In the meantime, yesterday, the defense establishment criticized the Ministry of Health for managing the crisis. The audit touched on three key areas: crisis management problem and its management; Information and public information problem; And logistical problems. The defense establishment is convinced that once the responsibility for the incident is transferred to the defense establishment, these three problems will be resolved or at least significantly reduced.

The Ministry of Defense believes that the reason why the responsibility is not transferred from the Ministry of Health is due to "considerations of power and ego". Some officials have expressed surprise over the past few days that the prime minister is not making "the requested decision." According to them, "One of two: If there is no catastrophe, there is no reason to panic and enslave the entire economy. And if there is a catastrophe, anyone who addresses it should be the only factor in Israel to do so.

This is not the time to try, because their price can be expensive and painful. The Ministry of Health should be the professional facilitator, but it is the Ministry of Defense that needs to manage the event. What was right in the snow in Jerusalem or the fire in Carmel is certainly a complex and dangerous event. "

Meanwhile, the security system is troubled by the discovery of the first cases of Corona in Gaza. The concern is that the population density in the Strip, together with the poor level of sanitation and medicine, could lead to humanitarian catastrophe. Therefore, extensive efforts are being made to coordinate with the health authorities in Gaza.

The activity is carried out through UN envoy Nikolai Mladnov and his people and through Egypt, where the effort (led by the Israeli coordinator of operations in the Occupied Territories and the Southern Command's champion) is to bring as much medical equipment and disinfectant as possible, in an attempt to prevent or at least delay the outbreak of the plague. The security system is troubled by the possibility that a crisis in Gaza will quickly enter Israel, both in terms of morbidity and possible attempts by Palestinians to move to Israeli territory in an attempt to be saved.

In order to prevent this, coordination with the power units in the Gaza Strip has been intensified, giving residents of the Gaza Strip identical guidelines to the public in Israel, including relying on Israeli publicity materials. The same is true in Judea and Samaria, where the coordination between Israel and the Palestinians is even tighter, including physical training that Israeli officials deliver to Palestinian medical and emergency teams.