Newsletter
Newsletter Support JNS

As tension with Iran rises, Israel Security Cabinet moves underground

Israel’s Security Cabinet has begun holding its weekly meetings in a secure underground complex in Jerusalem, according to reports on Tuesday.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Security Cabinet members get a tour with the North Front Command in the Golan Heights, on Feb. 6, 2018. Photo by Kobi Gideon/GPO.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Security Cabinet members get a tour with the North Front Command in the Golan Heights, on Feb. 6, 2018. Photo by Kobi Gideon/GPO.

Israel’s Security Cabinet has begun holding its weekly meetings in a secure underground complex in Jerusalem, according to reports on Tuesday.

As tensions between Israel and Iran continue to escalate, the top-level group of 11 senior ministers headed by Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu are now meeting in the National Management Center, an underground facility first utilized in 2011 to train for a national crisis. The bunker is situated beneath Jerusalem’s government complex and contains command facilities and living quarters.

According to Israel’s Channel 10 news, the move was made in order to prevent any leaks of information, in order to protect sensitive government dealings from spying attempts by hostile foreign parties.

The president asked Americans to pay higher gasoline prices for a little longer so that a “very evil country” cannot have nukes.
No injuries were reported. Separately, Israeli soldiers shot dead two terrorists who posed a threat.
“Vandalizing the World War II Memorial is an outrageous insult to all who served and Holocaust survivors, as well as all Americans and the values for which our country stands,” Sara J. Bloomfield, director of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, told JNS.
“We will keep litigating until we get to the truth,” Randy Mastro told JNS, after oral arguments in New York County Supreme Court. “I’m sure the court will hear us when these procedural issues are behind us.”