Residents of the periphery - the Israeli government does not care if they die in the disaster

For years, experts have been warning that a significant earthquake in Israel is only a matter of time.

And while the fact that the most vulnerable localities do not interest TMA contractors is understandable, the fact that they do not interest Israeli governments will not be forgiven.

Liat Ron

23/01/2022

Sunday, 23 January 2022, 16:22 Updated: 16:36

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An earthquake in the north of the country.

January 23, 2022 (according to section 27A)

If there is anything certain in the not-quite-normal reality in the State of Israel, it is that there will be a large and destructive earthquake in the north of the country, the only question is when and how many casualties will be in it.

Once in a hundred years, more or less, one such catastrophe has been documented in history, but like anything that is not at a distance from the face of the Israeli government, it does not really disturb the rest of its captains.

When two medium-sized earthquakes strike one after the other in the area of ​​Tiberias and Beit She'an, coming from the Jordan Valley and also affect settlements located north of the two cities, it is desirable that the ground begins to shake in Jerusalem as well.

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All these settlements have a common denominator: they are located in the northern periphery, far from the Knesset and far from the heart. Suffice it to read the internal correspondence in the right - wing WhatsApp group last weekend, where the Deputy Prime Minister in the Prime Minister's Office, Avir Kara, summarized the concept of the state leadership for generations, including that of the change government: "I must say construction must focus on the center and not Invest resources in areas that will be difficult for us to create employment, "Kara wrote candidly." Less connects to a construction plan, including in the Galilee. It is better to strengthen existing and not new settlements. "

In Kara's defense, we note that these things were not said in the context of strengthening buildings against earthquakes, but they indicate the mood.

Regarding the strengthening of existing localities, Kara is right.

It is better to strengthen the localities that already exist in the Galilee and also Tiberias, and Beit She'an and the localities of the Jordan Valley.

And not just financially, but to strengthen them literally, physically, all the buildings, as they do in the TMA 38 projects in the center of the country. In the north, along the Syrian-African rift, which is really prone to disaster, there are no projects at all.

Staircase in a building in Tiberias after the earthquake, January 23, 2022 (Photo: photos of surfers, documentation on social networks according to section 27A of the Copyright Law)

Why? Because there is no money there. When the land is so cheap, even greedy cashiers and NAP 38 queuing at the thresholds of committees in the center of the country and in areas of demand - and lamenting the hardships of mayors - move away from peripheral settlements as if not only Richter is waiting for them there with a ladder but also a tsunami

. The deadliest attack in Turkey In 1999, the Intergovernmental Steering Committee for Earthquake Preparedness was set up. After two years, the allocations were stopped and Eitan stopped strengthening the buildings.

Dr. Ron Avni, an earthquake expert at Ben-Gurion University, who is shocked by this negligence, concluded the issue last May (in an interview with Radio North): "If the next earthquake "From the schools and the hospitals are ready for it, it will not happen. The urgent rejects the important."

The government needs to lead

And now the important becomes very urgent following the last two earthquakes.

Since it is clear that contractors will not enter the plan to strengthen buildings in northern voluntarily, the government should lead them - or funded fully and immediately, or the imposition of a building plan 38 central and come out with boxes of money, strengthen buildings that paid him north.

Tactics bet The calculated "it is unlikely to happen in my shift" will not stand in the way of any elected public when required to hold an account before the public and the next state commission of inquiry. Hospitals and schools should be protected, should be sufficient to convict him of any subsequent surgery.

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