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The plan, which his ministry put together with the Finance Ministry, requires a budget of NIS 250 million every year for five years – which will deal only with the homes of those who live on the Great Rift Valley, the highest risk zone.In addition, the remaining homes of those who are in lower-risk areas will also need to be reinforced.All buildings constructed before 1984 were not built according to standards which began to be enforced that year for earthquake durability.“There are many old structures that will simply collapse like a tower of cards during an earthquake,” Levy said.“On every platform, I have demanded that the Israeli government open its eyes and internalize that this earthquake is a ticking time bomb, and it must invest considerable resources in order to prevent the disaster.”“The government must stop trembling from the large expenditure and ascend one step after another on the budget ladder, because the quakes are going up the Richter scale at a dizzying pace,” Levy stated.Levy believes that the current series of earthquakes will spur decision makers into action. “Everyone agrees [that a big earthquake] will come, and it is only a matter of when,” Levy warned. “This is Israel’s biggest security threat. And so I call on everyone to understand that we cannot wait.An earthquake will not come with a government resolution, it will surprise everyone – and for this barrel of explosives, we are not prepared.”He added that rather than getting to a situation where the country remembers a huge failure, “we must start to deal with it today in order to prevent the suffering of tomorrow.”The Defense Ministry, along with the security establishment and the National Emergency Authority, is set to hold an emergency meeting on Thursday to discuss this issue.
Estimate: 80,000 buildings in danger of collapsing in face of earthquake
Earthquakes are Israel’s biggest security threat, Jackie Levy told the ‘Post.’
