The Jerusalem Post reports: Some 3,000 families living in the northern city of Tiberias are lacking the proper infrastructure to protect them in the face of a serious earthquake, the city’s mayor, Yossi Ben-David, told participants of an emergency meeting hosted by the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee’s Home-Front Readiness Subcommittee on Thursday.
The meeting was called after dozens of tremors were felt around northern Israel over the past two weeks. The city of Tiberias announced on Sunday it had opened an emergency hotline for residents.
“The national concept regarding earthquakes determines that the local authority is the foundation brick and we have the responsibility to respond in the first moments,” he said. “We do everything to be prepared, but we need the tools.”
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