24.03.2011                      18.Adar ll, 5771

Umwelt:

State Comptroller: Israel must stop ignoring earthquake warnings

Micha Lindenstrauss issues report revealing that the country has done almost nothing to reinforce buildings and infrastructure in the last decade.

The Israeli government has done nothing to improve its status quo of unpreparedness for an earthquake, despite more than a decade of warning, State Comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss said Wednesday.
"The warning issued in this special report is a red flag for the prime minister and the government of Israel," wrote Lindenstrauss in the preface of a special report on the matter….