Some 30 percent of Israeli citizens did not have access to functioning bomb shelters near their homes in 2020.

The Shield of the North initiative officially began in October 2021, when the Defense Ministry started installing new bomb shelters in homes of the Kfar Yuval community, according to The Times of Israel (ToI).

In the coming months, dozens of bomb shelters will be built in homes – by the ministry’s Engineering and Construction Division and the Israel Defense Forces’ Home Front Command – in the northern town of Shlomi, which were initially built without reinforced rooms. 

As reported by i24 News
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