Drill

There was a chemical weapons drill at the Knesset Thursday morning, to simulate the reasponse of emergency personnel in the event that chemical weapons penetrated the Knesset compound. Knesset security, home front defense, the fire department, the IDF and the Israeli police all participated in the drill.

The exercise will simulate a scenario earthquake in the Arava region and Upper Galilee, causing a tsunami on the beaches of Tel Aviv and bringing to 7,000 'dead', 70 thousand injured and 170 thousand casualties being evacuated from their homes.