(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - The resolution is an amendment to the law of civil defense, which was ratified with a majority of two members of the Knesset Ze'ev Bielski (Kadima) and Nissim Zeev (Shas) against one, MK Aryeh Eldad (National Union) who depicted the ratified amendment as a "scandal" because according to him, "the resolution spares in fact the home front and the local authorities the duty of monitoring the common and private shelters in homes and in factories."
"The threats on the home front are serious and growing, but the authorities seek to exempt itself from the responsibility of the next war and from the next Commission of Inquiry ," said MK Eldad who named the resolution a "chaos."
In the amendment, which passed today was the following "the local authority is empowered to monitor the common and private shelters in factories in the region to oversee their maintenance so they can be used at any time as a shelter from an attack."
Furthermore, Chairman of the Subcommittee, MK Zeev Bielski (Kadima) said "I hoped and I could have imposed on local authorities this mission, but without the appropriate budget provided to the authorities, it is not possible."
He added, "In the debate held today the Commission approved the agreement reached by the home front on the responsibility of shelters maintenance."
Bielski noted that he will make an extra effort to get additional budgets that will allow the local authority to take responsibility over the development of 107 thousand shelters."
According to his words, "shelters require monitoring devices and large huge budgets of hundreds of millions of shekels. In the scheme concluded between the home front and the local authority, it has been agreed that "Israel" has 107 thousand shelters that will be the responsibility of the residents."
Under the amendment in the law of civil defense, which was ratified today, the responsibility of overseeing the common shelters will be held by the authorities themselves and not by the state or the home front.
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