![]() ![]() He and Snir are seeking donations of servers and/or cash to expand the app worldwide in several languages. “We’re learning that people are downloading it not only to make sure they hear the alert but also to keep tabs on relatives anywhere in the country,” says Sprung. There have been over 100,000 installs of the Android version, and the iOS version is now available in English. ![]() In the past tense week, Sprung tells ISRAEL21c, the updated app – now including a chat feature so people can share their emotions – is being downloaded at a fast clip. With Snir’s permission, Ari Sprung developed an Android version in his Jerusalem basement. The nonprofit emergency medical response service United Hatzalah launched a public “SOS” emergency alert app that can dispatch an immediate distress call - and the caller’s precise location - to the Israeli police and its own dispatchers.Īs of today, the weeks-old SOS app for Android and iPhone already has been downloaded for free by 100,000 users, according to Dov Maisel, director of international relations at Jerusalem-based United Hatzalah.Īnother free smartphone app, Tzeva Adom (Red Alert Israel), was developed for iOS by app developer Kobi Snir during heavy shelling from Gaza about two and a half years ago to make sure users in Gaza-area communities wouldn’t miss an air-raid siren. In typical Israeli fashion, people are thinking out of the box to help prevent future tragedies. But reactions aren’t limited to fear, sadness and anger. Netanyahu’s emergency rally was attended by members of all right-wing parties under the banner: “Stopping a dangerous minority government that relies on supporters of terror.Over the past few weeks, Israelis have been shocked at the kidnappings and murders of three Jewish and one Arab youth, and the resumption of shelling from Gaza. Such an endeavor would all but necessitate the backing of the 13-seat Joint Arab List, for however long that might last.įor most Israeli Jews, that’s problematic, given that many, if not most of the Joint List’s leaders have made quite clear that they see themselves first and foremost as representatives of the “Palestinian” Arabs, and as enemies of any entity defining itself as the “Jewish” state. Gantz, who’s party controls one more Knesset seat than Netanyahu’s Likud (33-32), was given the mandate to form the next government after the current prime minister failed in his chance to do the same last month.īut, with talks aimed at forming a unity coalition including both “Blue and White” and Likud having stalled, there is concern that Gantz will attempt to govern without a majority. ![]() And there is a real possibility that within the next 48 hours a minority government will be formed.” ![]() “In Ramallah and Tehran they will be celebrating. “A minority government supported by the Arabs is a dream government for Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran,” said Netanyahu. Netanyahu said that he decided to sound the alarm after learning that his rival for the premiership, “Blue and White” faction head Benny Gantz, was considering the formation of a minority coalition backed by the Joint Arab List. At a special emergency summit on Monday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urgently warned Israelis that they were about to get the most dangerous government in the State of Israel’s short history. ![]()
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