Japan’s suffering highlights earthquake preparedness here

21.03.2011                      15.Adar ll, 5771

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Japan's suffering highlights earthquake preparedness here

Minister Without Portfolio Benny Begin, a geologist, was recently appointed to coordinate activities in advance of what could be destruction of a magnitude Israeli society has never known.

As the world was following events in Japan, in a side room at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, work on earthquake preparedness here continued. Minister Without Portfolio Benny Begin, a geologist, was recently appointed to coordinate activities in advance of what could be destruction of a magnitude Israeli society has never known.
Last week, the Knesset Interior and Environment Committee approved for second and third reading in the plenum an amendment to the law on betterment tax that would grant an exemption, as an incentive, to people who protect their property from earthquakes as part of National Master Plan 38, which also stipulates the granting of additional building rights….