Pikud HaOref Safety Protocols

Step-by-step safety instructions for every type of Home Front Command alert in Israel.

Alert Types and Response Protocols

Category 1: Missiles and Rockets (ירי רקטות וטילים)

The most common alert type. Triggered by incoming rocket or missile fire.

Immediate actions (within your time-to-shelter window):

1. Enter the best protected space you can reach in your time window, in this official priority order: mamad (apartment protected space), mamak (floor protected space), mamam (institutional protected space, e.g. a school or municipal facility), then a miklat or public shelter
2. Close the blast door and window shutter completely
3. Sit on the floor against an inner wall, below window height
4. Cover your head with your hands
5. If you have children, hold them close and cover their heads

If there is no protected space near you, or the public shelters are not open. Only then choose "a good place in the middle", which official guidance defines precisely. Do not improvise this.