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Continued preparations for Iran’s revenge • TV4 The news on the ground in Tel Aviv

Israel waits and waits and waits. And waiting.
Trust in the country’s air defense is great, but the Israelis also trust their own shelters, their “mamad”.
– It is clear that the attack will come now, or very very soon, says Opher Kochba, from the corner of the kitchen table, mother’s kitchen table.

Opher is back and living with his parents in central Tel Aviv, albeit temporarily. He, his wife and daughter did the same the last time Iran promised an attack on Israel. They live on the twelfth floor and can’t get down to the shelter in their own house. But the parents live on the first floor and from there they get to the shelter in less than a minute. About the amount of time Tel Avivians have from the time the air traffic alert goes off.

– If you are going to teach a dog not to poop inside, which Iran now wants to teach us. Then you can’t punish the dog a month later, then it won’t understand at all why it is being punished, says Opher.

– Therefore, the answer must come soon, that’s what I think anyway.

The law: All houses must have “mamad”

His father, 86-year-old Mordechai Aharoni, shows off the newly purchased generator – currently in short supply in Tel Aviv.

– But if the bomb alarm goes off, then we first have to get down to the house’s mamad, says his wife Yael.

“Mamad”, they are called that; the Israeli shelters. In 1991, Sammad Hussein sent a dozen or so robots that struck Tel Aviv and Haifa. Since then, it has been a law that all new houses must have a specific shelter in each home or apartment.

Today, about two-thirds of Israelis either have a mamad at home, one on their floor, or live near a public shelter. But one in three lives too far away, according to Israeli media. This applies above all to socio-economically vulnerable residential areas, rural villages and cities with a large proportion of Arab-Israeli population.

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