For the first time in years, the communities of Judea and Samaria will be able to maintain direct contact with the IDF - which will save lives, literally: in recent days, a distribution of thousands of advanced radios to the local alert and security forces has begun.
For years, some localities used MIRS devices as walkie-talkies, but because it involved a certain cost, they were used only in established localities, and those who could not pay or did not feel the need to do so did not own them.
In 2019, the MIRS devices were taken out of service, and the stand-by squads had to reinvent themselves when it came to liaising with the various bodies.
Although the cell phones made the connection somewhat easier, there were some problems with them: sometimes the recipient missed a message on WhatsApp due to inattention, there was not always reception during an event, and the connection with the army was very partial.
For that matter, if a commander in the sector had passed by in his vehicle near a locality, it is doubtful that he would have known in real time about a security incident in that locality.
Only after long minutes, an eternity in terms of a security incident, would all the forces be in sync regarding what was happening.
Now, after staff work led by the Yesha Council, more than a thousand advanced radios will be entered into the localities, funded by the Home Front Command. At the same time, the media coverage of the devices has been completed almost one hundred percent, to prevent reception problems.
According to Yesha Council Chief of Staff Shlomo Vaknin, "This is very important news from an operational point of view. "Every minute in a security incident is a world in its own right."
The commander of communications and electronics at the Home Front Command, Lt. Col. Ze'ev Primovich, said that "by the end of the month, the rest of the devices will be delivered, and their installation will be completed in the Rabshakeh vehicles in the settlement."
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