Civil Defence Law, 5711-1951
חוק ההתגוננות האזרחית, תשי"א-1951
Published: 1951-03-21Consolidated Hebrew text as of 2024-11-07 · Last amended 2024-03-21✓ Amendment status checked against the Knesset legislation record on 2026-09-29
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Chapter I: Interpretations
Definitions§
1.
In this Law –
"enemy" – as defined in section 91 of the Penal Law, 5737-1977;
"auxiliary organisation" – any of the following:
(1)Magen David Adom in Israel, established under the Magen David Adom Law, 5710-1950;
(2)the National Fire and Rescue Authority;
(3)(Repealed)
(4)a body whose principal activity is the saving of human life and whose assistance is required immediately for the purpose of saving human life during an attack, which the Minister of Defence has declared in Reshumot (Official Gazette), with the consent of the Minister designated as responsible for that body, where such has been designated, or the Minister responsible for the field of activity of that body, to be an auxiliary organisation, in accordance with criteria regarding its organisational and operational capabilities as directed by the Minister of Defence;
"civil defence laws" – this Law, the Regulations made thereunder, and any Order and directive issued thereunder;
"Home Front Command" – the Civil Defence Service established under section 2;
"Chief of General Staff", "soldier" and "army orders" – as defined in the Military Justice Law, 5715-1955;
"civil defence" – measures taken for the purpose of defence against any attack or threat of attack on the civilian population, or for the purpose of reducing the consequences of such an attack, excluding combat measures other than self-defence;
"attack" – any of the following:
(1)aerial bombardment, artillery or rocket shelling and any other type of long-range fire by an enemy;
(2)an attempted strike by the armed forces of an enemy state;
"member of an auxiliary organisation" – an employee of an auxiliary organisation;
"Equipment Registration and Mobilisation Law" – the Equipment Registration and Mobilisation for the Israel Defence Forces Law, 5747-1987;
"special home front situation" – a situation declared pursuant to section 9c;
"volunteer in an auxiliary organisation" – a person who performs a function on a voluntary basis in an auxiliary organisation, including a person serving in civil service as defined in the Civil Service Law, 5777-2017, in an auxiliary organisation;
"head of a local authority" – in a municipality, the mayor or the deputy mayor, and in a local council, the head of the council or the deputy head;
"local authority" – a municipality or a local council, and in a place where these do not exist – a corporation or an individual actually performing functions of local government therein;
"hour of attack" – the period during which an attack is taking place in a particular area, from its commencement or from the sounding of an alarm signal, whichever is earlier, until the sounding of an all-clear signal or until the expiry of twenty-four hours from the commencement of the attack, whichever is earlier; if several attacks occur within a period of twenty-four hours, the count of the said twenty-four hours shall commence from the first attack;
"Home Front Command exercises" – training exercises of the Home Front Command or of auxiliary organisations that the head of the Home Front Command has declared to be Home Front Command exercises.
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Civil Defence Service§
2.
There is hereby established the Civil Defence Service, which shall organise and manage civil defence in the State, and for that purpose shall be empowered –
(a)to prepare and carry out civil defence plans for the whole State or for any area thereof;
(b)to train Home Front Command members for civil defence duties, to equip them, to organise them in units, to determine the command and discipline arrangements of those units and their modes of operation;
(c)to determine uniforms or special identification markings for Home Front Command members;
(d)to enter into contracts, to hold real property and to acquire movable property;
(e)to carry out works on land, to install structures and installations and to maintain them;
(f)to guide and direct the auxiliary organisations in the performance of their duties in the field of civil defence and to activate them and the equipment in their possession during a special home front situation, during an hour of attack or during Home Front Command exercises;
(g)to coordinate the activities of government ministries, local authorities and private enterprises in matters of civil defence;
(h)to determine the manner of giving warning to the civilian population, including determining alarm and all-clear signals and activating them;
(i)to instruct the population in civil defence matters and to equip it with means of defence;
(j)to assist the affected population and to carry out any other action necessary for the fulfilment of its duties, in accordance with the civil defence laws.
(k)to act – with the approval of the Minister of Defence, whether in general or in respect of a particular matter, and in coordination with the relevant authorities – for the saving of life and property that is not connected with civil defence.
Head of the Home Front Command§
3.
(a)The Minister of Defence, on the recommendation of the Chief of General Staff, shall appoint an officer in the Israel Defence Forces to serve in the position of head of the Home Front Command. Notice of his appointment shall be published in Reshumot (Official Gazette).
(b)The management of the Home Front Command and the command over all its members shall be vested in the head of the Home Front Command, who shall be empowered to act on behalf of the Home Front Command in any matter, including to exercise any power vested in a district Home Front Command commander under the civil defence laws.
(c)Without derogating from the powers conferred on a district Home Front Command commander under this Law, the Chief of General Staff may, with the approval of the Minister of Defence and the Foreign Affairs and Security Committee of the Knesset, determine in army orders the districts in which the command and management shall not be vested in the head of the Home Front Command, as well as the functions they shall fulfil within the framework of the Home Front Command and the Israel Defence Forces.
4.§
(Repealed — תשע״א)
District Home Front Command Commanders§
5.
(a)For the purposes of this Law, the head of the Home Front Command shall, with the approval of the Chief of General Staff, divide the territory of the State into Home Front Command districts and shall appoint a district Home Front Command commander for each district, and wherever in this Law reference is made to a district Home Front Command commander – the Home Front Command commander of the relevant district is meant.
(b)A district Home Front Command commander shall be responsible for the organisation and management of civil defence in his district and for that purpose shall have –
(1)command over Home Front Command members in the district;
(2)the power to activate the auxiliary organisations in the district during a special home front situation, during an hour of attack and during Home Front Command exercises;
(3)any other power vested in the Home Front Command that is conferred upon him under the civil defence laws.
6.§
(Repealed — תשע״א)
6a.§
(Repealed — תשע״א)
6b.§
(Repealed — תשע״א)
7.§
(Repealed — תשע״א)
7a.§
(Repealed — תשע״א)
7b.§
(Repealed — תשע״א)
7c.§
(Repealed — תשע״א)
7d.§
(Repealed — תשע״א)
7e.§
(Repealed — תשע״א)
Home Front Command Members§
8.
(a)The following are Home Front Command members:
(1)a soldier sent to serve in the Home Front Command in accordance with army orders;
(2)a person accepted into the Home Front Command as a volunteer.
(b)A person shall not be accepted into the Home Front Command as a volunteer unless he has signed a declaration of volunteering in which the duty or duties that may be imposed on the signatory, his powers, his obligations and his rights shall be specified.
(c)A person accepted into the Home Front Command as a volunteer may give notice of the cessation of his volunteering in accordance with the rules determined by the head of the Home Front Command, provided that he shall not cease his volunteering before the completion of rescue operations in an attacked area for the performance of which he volunteered, or before the expiry of forty-eight hours from the time of the notice, whichever is earlier of the two.
(d)A person accepted into the Home Front Command as a volunteer who is called to report for security service under the Defence Service Law [Consolidated Version], 5746-1986, for reserve service under the Reserve Service Law, 5768-2008, or for labour service under the Emergency Labour Service Law, 5727-1967, shall not report for the purpose of performing his duty in the Home Front Command, and if he is called for service as aforesaid after he has reported to the Home Front Command – he shall comply with the directives of the call-up for service.
(e)(Repealed)
(f)For the purposes of criminal liability and liability for damages, the legal status of a Home Front Command member in respect of an act done or omitted by him in connection with the performance of his duty shall be the same as that of a government official.
(g)
(1)A person accepted into the Home Front Command as a volunteer who sustains a service injury or contracts a service illness during his service in a duty in the Home Front Command as a result of the performance of that duty, or who dies as a result of a service injury or service illness that occurred in circumstances as aforesaid, shall be subject, together with his family members including his fiancée, as defined in section 35b(a) of the Families of Soldiers Who Fell in Action (Compensation and Rehabilitation) Law, 5710-1950 (hereinafter – his fiancée), to the rehabilitation laws; and for the purposes of the rehabilitation laws, he shall be regarded as a soldier who is a soldier in regular service, his service in a duty in the Home Front Command shall be regarded as military service, and the day of completion of the duty shall be regarded as his discharge date from military service;
(2)A person accepted into the Home Front Command as a volunteer who sustains an injury that is not a service injury or contracts an illness that is not a service illness, occurring in circumstances as referred to in paragraph (1) and not constituting a hostile action injury, shall be subject to the provisions of Chapter XIII of the National Insurance Law.
(h)In this section and in section 8b –
"injury", "service injury", "soldier in regular service", "illness" and "service illness" – as defined in the rehabilitation laws, as the case may be;
"National Insurance Law" – the National Insurance Law [Consolidated Version], 5755-1995;
"rehabilitation laws" – the Disabled Persons (Compensation and Rehabilitation) Law, 5719-1959 [Consolidated Version], and the Families of Soldiers Who Fell in Action (Compensation and Rehabilitation) Law, 5710-1950;
"hostile action injury" – as defined in the Compensation for Victims of Hostile Action Law, 5730-1970.
References§
8a.
Any enactment referring to the Disabled Persons (Compensation and Rehabilitation) Law, 5719-1959 [Consolidated Version], or to the Families of Soldiers Who Fell in Action (Compensation and Rehabilitation) Law, 5710-1950, shall be read as if it also referred to section 8 of this Law, all as the case may be, and this when no other intention is implied.
Member of an Auxiliary Organisation§
8b.
(a)A member of an auxiliary organisation is obliged to comply with any instruction given to him in the field of civil defence by the persons competent to do so under this Law, for the purpose of performing his duty.
(b)A member of an auxiliary organisation who is called to report for security service under the Defence Service Law [Consolidated Version], 5746-1986, for reserve service under the Reserve Service Law, 5768-2008, or for labour service under the Emergency Labour Service Law, 5727-1967, shall not report for the purpose of performing his duty in the auxiliary organisation, and if he is called for service as aforesaid after he has reported for the purpose of performing his duty in the auxiliary organisation, he shall comply with the directives of the call-up for service.
(c)A member of an auxiliary organisation who performs a duty pursuant to an instruction as referred to in subsection (a), and who sustains a service injury or contracts a service illness during the performance of his duty in the auxiliary organisation as a result of the performance of that duty, or who dies as a result of a service injury or service illness that occurred in circumstances as aforesaid, shall be subject, together with his family members including his fiancée, to the rehabilitation laws; for the purposes of the rehabilitation laws, he shall be regarded as a soldier who is a soldier in regular service, the said duty shall be regarded as military service and the day of completion of the duty shall be regarded as his discharge date from military service, and they shall also apply to a member of an auxiliary organisation who was called to perform a duty under this Law and sustained an injury on his way to the performance of his said duty, and to his family members including his fiancée, as the case may be.
(d)A volunteer in an auxiliary organisation may report for the purpose of performing his duty in the auxiliary organisation during an hour of attack, during a special home front situation or during Home Front Command exercises; where a volunteer in an auxiliary organisation has so reported, he shall be regarded, for as long as he is performing a duty in the auxiliary organisation, as a member of an auxiliary organisation, and the provisions of this section shall apply to him.
Liability for Damage§
8c.
Where an instruction has been given to an auxiliary organisation under this Law to activate equipment in its possession, the equipment shall be regarded, in all matters relating to the payment of compensation for damage caused to it and for its loss, as if it had been mobilised under section 8 of the Equipment Registration and Mobilisation Law; the provisions of this section shall not apply to the National Fire and Rescue Authority.
Military Duties§
8d.
The Chief of General Staff, with the approval of the Minister of Defence, may determine in army orders the military duties to be performed by the head of the Home Front Command, the district Home Front Command inspector, the formation Home Front Command commander and Home Front Command personnel, provided that such duties shall not be imposed except on a soldier.
Powers of a Home Front Command Member§
9.
(a)For the purpose of performing his duty, the head of the Home Front Command, a district Home Front Command commander and a Home Front Command member authorised to do so by the head of the Home Front Command or a district Home Front Command commander may enter, at any reasonable hour, any place, except a place of residence, for the purpose of supervising compliance with the civil defence laws, for the purpose of giving instructions for the adoption of civil defence measures, or for the purpose of adopting such measures, provided that the owner or occupier of the place is given reasonable prior notice thereof.
(b)During Home Front Command exercises, a Home Front Command member may enter any place in accordance with the provisions of subsection (a).
(c)During a special home front situation or during an hour of attack, a Home Front Command member may, for the purpose of performing his duty –
(1)enter any place in accordance with the provisions of subsection (a) and use reasonable force for the purpose of exercising the power of entry;
(2)use reasonable force to compel compliance with the civil defence laws.
(d)The use of force under subsection (c) shall be effected only after the Home Front Command member has identified himself to any person present at the place, has informed that person of the purpose for which the use of force is required, and has warned him that it is his intention to use force; the obligation of identification, notification and warning as aforesaid shall not apply if the Home Front Command member becomes aware that no person is present at the place.
(e)During a special home front situation or during an hour of attack, to the extent required for the saving of life or property or the prevention of serious harm thereto, an officer serving in the Home Front Command may, for the purpose of performing his duty –
(1)instruct a member of an auxiliary organisation and a volunteer in an auxiliary organisation to act within the framework of their duty and powers and to activate the equipment in their possession for the purpose of performing their duty;
(2)give any person found in the attacked area or in an area likely to be attacked any reasonable instruction;
(3)instruct a person in whose ownership, possession, control or supervision there is equipment or material, to make the equipment or material available to the Home Front Command or to an auxiliary organisation;
(4)close an area or a place and prevent any person from entering or leaving it, and also to require any person in the attacked area or in an area likely to be attacked to remain at the place where he is situated, to leave it or to enter another place as determined, all if he considers that giving the instruction is immediately necessary for the purpose of saving life or property or preventing serious harm thereto;
(5)instruct the carrying out of works on real property, including its demolition, if he considers that the carrying out of the works immediately is necessary for the purpose of saving life or property or preventing serious harm thereto, including for the purpose of rescuing a person trapped in that real property or preventing the spread of a fire; for the purposes of this paragraph, "an officer serving in the Home Front Command" – an officer authorised for the purposes of this paragraph by the head of the Home Front Command or by a person authorised by the head of the Home Front Command for that purpose.
(f)Equipment or material made available to the Home Front Command or an auxiliary organisation as referred to in subsection (e)(3) shall be regarded, for the purposes of the payment of usage fees and compensation, as if it had been equipment mobilised under section 8 of the Equipment Registration and Mobilisation Law.
(g)Nothing in the provisions of this section shall derogate from any other power conferred under any law.
(h)No action shall be brought against a person in respect of an act or omission done by him in good faith pursuant to an instruction received under subsection (e) that gives rise to liability in torts.
(i)In this section, "Home Front Command member" – excluding a person accepted into the Home Front Command as a volunteer.
Installation of Sirens and Communication Installations§
9a.
The head of the Home Front Command or a person authorised by him in writing to do so may install sirens, communication installations and power installations on any real property and operate them, and may also use other communication installations and other power installations on that real property, all for the needs of civil defence and on such conditions as the Minister of Defence shall prescribe by Regulations. For the purpose of the payment of compensation, the provisions of the Compensation (Defence) Ordinance, 1940, shall apply as if work to which section 3(1)(c) of that Ordinance applies had been carried out on the real property.
Transportation Service for Rescue Purposes§
9b.
(a)During an hour of attack, a Home Front Command member authorised to do so in writing by a district Home Front Command commander may instruct, in writing or orally, a person then driving a vehicle or the owner of a vehicle then in possession thereof, to transport casualties therein or to drive the vehicle so that assistance may be rendered by means thereof to persons or property in an attacked area in connection with the attack, for the shortest period of time required for that purpose (hereinafter – transportation service), all at the time, place and by the routes to be specified in the instruction. A person who has fulfilled an obligation under this section and who, as a result thereof, has been prevented from fulfilling another obligation under an enactment shall not bear criminal liability for non-fulfilment of the other obligation.
(b)A vehicle in which transportation service is being performed shall be regarded throughout the period of service, for the purpose of the payment of usage fees and compensation, as if it had been mobilised under section 8 of the Equipment Registration and Mobilisation Law.
(c)A person performing transportation service shall be regarded for the purposes of sections 8(f) and (g) and 8a as a Home Front Command member and his service as a duty in the Home Front Command.
(d)"Vehicle" in this section has the meaning assigned to it in the Traffic Ordinance [New Version].
Declaration of a Special Home Front Situation§
9c.
(a)
(1)If the Government is satisfied that there is a high probability that an attack on the civilian population will occur, it may declare, in the whole State or in a particular area, a special home front situation;
(2)If the Government has made such a declaration, it shall immediately notify the Foreign Affairs and Security Committee of the Knesset thereof, and the Committee shall be entitled to summon the Prime Minister, the Minister of Defence or the Chief of General Staff to appear before it within 48 hours of the declaration, for the purpose of approving it; a person summoned under this paragraph shall appear before the Committee at the time it has fixed;
(3)If the Foreign Affairs and Security Committee has not acted as referred to in paragraph (2), the declaration of a special home front situation shall expire upon the lapse of five days from its issuance; the Government, with the prior approval of the Foreign Affairs and Security Committee of the Knesset, may extend the period of validity of the declaration;
(4)If the Committee has summoned one or more of those listed in paragraph (2) and none of those summoned has appeared, or if the Committee has decided not to approve the declaration, its validity shall expire upon the lapse of 48 hours from the time of its issuance;
(5)If the Committee has deliberated on the approval of the declaration as referred to in paragraph (2), it may approve the declaration as it shall determine;
(6)If the Committee has approved the declaration or its extension and has determined its period, the Government may again request the approval of the Committee for the extension of the validity of the declaration.
(b)
(1)If the Minister of Defence is satisfied that there are circumstances justifying the declaration of a special home front situation, and the Government has not yet made such a declaration, he may declare a special home front situation; if the Minister of Defence has made such a declaration, he shall immediately notify the Government and the Foreign Affairs and Security Committee of the Knesset thereof;
(2)The validity of the declaration under this subsection shall expire upon the lapse of 48 hours from the time it was given, unless it has been cancelled before then by the Government or by the Minister of Defence;
(3)The Government may extend the validity of the declaration; if the Government has done so, the provisions of subsection (a) applicable to a Government declaration of a special home front situation shall apply to the extension, with the following modifications:
(a)the count of 48 hours for the purposes of subsection (a)(2) and (4) shall commence at the time of the declaration by the Government;
(b)the count of 5 days for the purposes of subsection (a)(3) shall commence on the day of the declaration by the Minister of Defence.
(c)For the purposes of the 48 hours referred to in subsections (a) and (b), Sabbaths and festivals shall not be counted in the reckoning of the hours.
(d)
(1)The Government or the Minister of Defence may, each within the scope of his powers, amend the declaration of a special home front situation, and the Government may also amend the declaration of the Minister of Defence;
(2)
(a)If the Government has amended its declaration, the provisions of subsection (a) shall apply;
(b)If the Minister of Defence has amended his declaration, the provisions of subsection (b)(1) and (2) shall apply, however the count of 48 hours for the purposes of subsection (b)(2) shall commence at the time of the issuance of the first declaration by him;
(c)If the Government has amended the declaration of the Minister of Defence, the amendment to the declaration shall be regarded as an extension of its validity, and the provisions of subsection (b)(3) shall apply.
(e)
(1)The Minister of Defence may cancel his declaration of a special home front situation as long as it has not been amended or extended by the Government;
(2)The Government may cancel the declaration of the Minister of Defence of a special home front situation;
(3)The Government may, at any time, cancel its declaration of a special home front situation, even if that declaration has been approved by the Foreign Affairs and Security Committee of the Knesset.
(f)
(1)A declaration of a special home front situation, its amendment, extension, approval or cancellation, shall be published upon their issuance, by the Minister of Defence or the Government, on radio and television, and also as soon as possible, in Reshumot (Official Gazette), in the press and in any manner they see fit;
(2)A decision on the expiry of the validity of the declaration, pursuant to subsection (a)(4), shall be published by the Foreign Affairs and Security Committee of the Knesset in the manner prescribed in paragraph (1).
Provisions Regarding a Special Home Front Situation and an Hour of Attack§
9d.
(a)
(1)During a special home front situation or an hour of attack, the Chief of General Staff, his deputy, the head of the General Staff Branch of the Israel Defence Forces, the head of the Home Front Command, or an officer of the Israel Defence Forces holding the rank of Major-General serving in the role of Regional Commander, with respect to the area under his command (in this section – office holders), may, to the extent required, give to any person, to a category of persons, or to the public at large, any directive required for the preservation or saving of human life or property (hereinafter – the directive), including –
(a)to impose an obligation to remain in specified places, including in homes or other buildings, in security rooms or in shelters;
(b)to prohibit or restrict studies in educational institutions;
(c)to give directives regarding personal equipment for civil defence purposes;
(d)to prescribe directives in the matter of blackout and in the matter of protection of windows of any type;
(e)to cancel licences conferring the right to use a shelter for a purpose other than taking refuge therein during an hour of attack, as provided in section 15(a);
(f)to direct the person in charge of a shelter to vacate it immediately of the movable property therein, except for the equipment that such person is required to keep in the shelter pursuant to the civil defence laws;
(g)to direct, to the extent required for the purpose of providing shelter to the public during an hour of attack, the person in charge of a public shelter to vacate the movable property therein, all or part thereof, and to cease its use, all or part thereof, for purposes other than civil defence, or to impose conditions or restrictions on such use;
(h)to direct the person in charge of a shelter or a public shelter to open it and keep it open at all times, so as to enable any person who is in its vicinity during an hour of attack to enter it immediately and to remain therein until the end of the hour of attack;
(2)The Government or the Minister of Defence, as the case may be, shall, where necessary, prescribe in the declaration of a special home front situation, limitations on the type of directives to be given pursuant to paragraph (1);
(3)The directive shall expire upon the occurrence of one of the following:
(a)the person who gave the directive has cancelled it, or has given another directive in its place on the same matter;
(b)the declaration of a special home front situation has been cancelled or has ceased to be in force.
(b)
(1)The directive shall be published as soon as possible on radio, on television, in the press and by any means that the office holder considers appropriate;
(2)The directive shall be deemed to have come to the knowledge of a person within one hour of the time of its publication on radio or on television, or within four hours of the time of distribution of the newspapers in which the directive was published, or from the time at which the directive was published by another means, whichever is the earliest;
(3)The directive shall be binding on every person from the time it was delivered to him or from the time it came to his knowledge, unless he proves that he could not have known of it.
(c)Nothing in the provisions of this section shall derogate from the operation of the press and electronic media.
9e.§
(Repealed — תשל״ד)
9f.§
(Repealed — תשל״ד)
9g.§
(Repealed — תשל״ד)
9h.§
(Repealed — תשל״ד)
Home Front Command Budget§
10.
(a)The State Treasury and the local authorities shall bear the expenditures of the annual budget of the Home Front Command (in this section – the budget).
(b)The amount of the State Treasury's participation in the coverage of the budget expenditures shall be determined each year on the recommendation of the Minister of Finance by a decision of the Finance Committee of the Knesset.
(c)The head of the Home Front Command shall prepare the budget proposal.
(d)The said proposal, after it has been approved by the Minister of Defence, the Minister of the Interior and the Minister of Finance, shall constitute a valid and binding budget, and the Home Front Command shall not incur any expenditure except in accordance therewith; however, the Minister of Defence may, with the consent of the Minister of Finance, transfer any sum from one sub-item to another sub-item within the same expenditure item of the budget.
(e)The amount remaining to cover expenditures, after deducting the amount of the State Treasury's participation, shall be distributed among the local authorities by the Minister of the Interior. An amount so determined for a particular local authority shall constitute a debt owed by it to the Home Front Command from the day on which notice thereof was delivered to that authority.
Local Home Front Command Budget§
10a.
(a)In addition to the amount of its participation in the Home Front Command budget pursuant to section 10, a local authority shall include in its budget an amount to cover the expenditures of civil defence needs within its area (in this section – the local Home Front Command budget), to be determined each year by the Minister of the Interior on the proposal of the head of the Home Front Command, having regard as far as possible to the civil defence needs of the local authority and to its financial capacity to bear that amount; the composition of the items of the local Home Front Command budget shall be determined by the local authority in accordance with the guidelines of the district Home Front Command commander.
(b)If the local authority has not, by the end of the budget year, expended the amounts of the local Home Front Command budget, all or part thereof, in accordance with the provisions of the budget, the Minister of the Interior may direct that the unexpended budget amount, all or part thereof, be recorded in its books as a debt owed to the Home Front Command, and if the debt is not paid within two months from the day on which the direction for its recording was given – to direct that it be paid to the Home Front Command.
(c)If the Home Front Command has collected the debt, it is required to use the monies of the debt for the civil defence needs of the local authority from which they were collected.
(d)A local authority shall furnish the district Home Front Command commander, upon his request, with information on the extent of implementation of the local Home Front Command budget.
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חוק ההתגוננות האזרחית, תשי"א-1951
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