Home Front Command To Test Household Protection Technologies February 2012
Dr. Aaron Lerner Date: 13 November 2011

This coming February the Home Front Command will stage a test in the Negev
of a variety of technologies for protecting civilians under rocket attack.

Lt. Col. Tzachi Zarko, Head of the Engineering Branch of the Home Front
Command told IMRA that besides testing equipment designed by the Home Front
Command itself – including a 'protected bed' that looks like a regular bed
though can be transformed into a 'protected hut' during emergencies and a
special closet that can be used as a safe room, the Home Front Command will
make available whole “test rooms” that companies can outfit with protection
equipment and technologies.

The metal closet as designed by the Home Front Command would cost around
10,000 NIS and is prohibitively heavy . The bed, as now designed, would
also cost around NIS 10,000,

After the successful demonstration of the bed and closet next February, the
Home Front Command plans to make the designs available to Israeli
manufacturers with the idea that they will produce economical variants that
could be sold to the general public.

Dr. Aaron Lerner, Director IMRA (Independent Media Review & Analysis)
(Mail POB 982 Kfar Sava)
Tel 972-9-7604719/Fax 972-3-7255730
INTERNET ADDRESS: imra@netvision.net.il
Website: http://www.imra.org.il