TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) - Underneath the plaza outside Israel's Habima national theater, Israel has put the finishing touches on a new gathering place that it hopes will never host a crowd: the country's most advanced public underground bomb shelter. Neighbourhood next to Tel Aviv's missile defence system has no bomb shelters The Iron Dome missile defence system fires to intercept a rocket. JERUSALEM (JTA) — Hamas claimed responsibility for a barrage of rockets fired on southern and central Israel, including Tel Aviv. (Drork/Wikimedia Commons) The shelter, four stories underground and with space for 2,000 people, is part of Tel Aviv's elaborate civil defense infrastructure. Furthermore, as we have recently seen, missiles have even reached the centre of the country and Tel Aviv. Image by Rachel Kadish. Missiles approach Tel Aviv. Otherwise, staircases in the center of buildings are usually safe, as are rooms with concrete walls and minimum openings. Now and Then: Comparing Two Israeli Wars That Sent Tel Aviv Residents to Bomb Shelters . The LifeShield – It’s designed to save lives, says Josh Adler.With residents of Sderot and its surroundings suffering a daily Kassam missile bombardment from the Gaza Strip, Israeli ingenuity has developed a solution to try to make life for residents as normal as possible – mobile bomb shelters. Tel Aviv, Israel, March 4: Underneath the plaza outside Israel's Habima national theater, Israel has put the finishing touches on a new gathering place As a precautionary move, the municipality of Rishon LeZion, a city just 7 miles south of Tel Aviv, has decided to open all public bomb shelters on Sunday. ... Non-essential work near Gaza has also been cancelled and bomb shelters … A ‘men’s only’ bomb shelter in the Israeli town of Ashdod refused to admit a female Knesset aide. Close. She went instead to a women’s shelter — but it offered no protection against rockets. The city of Netanya, a coastal city around 30 minutes north of Tel Aviv, opens its public bomb shelters as a precaution for residents amid the wave of rocket fire into southern Israel from the Gaza Strip. REUTERS/Baz Ratner. Rocket sirens sounded in Tel Aviv on Thursday evening, alerting residents to rush to bomb shelters. Many Israelis have bomb shelters in their homes. Bizarre trend of 'bomb shelter selfies' takes off in Israel as under-siege Tel Aviv residents vow to 'keep on smiling' By Jill Reilly 09:27 24 Jul 2014, updated 09:53 24 Jul 2014 0 shares The decision is made by the municipality, not the the IDF’s Homefront Command. Which public bomb shelters and parkings as protected spaces are located near your home; Prepare the shared bomb shelter in your apartment building. Regretfully the ongoing situation of attacks on the Israeli civilian population is unlikely to end soon. As in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv is readying its public bomb shelters for a lot of activity over the coming days and weeks. City officials have been beefing up shelters and emergency services in recent months at a time of rising tensions with Iran and militant groups in the Gaza Strip. However, in Israel they are still in use, homes can not be built without a bomb shelter. Feel free to contact at any time Tel-Aviv-Jaffa's 106 Hotline and the Home Front Command Hotline 104. 14 / 22. Passengers walk past a sign pointing to a shelter at Ben Gurion International airport, near Tel Aviv July 24, 2014. More than two dozen rockets were fired fr0m the Gaza Strip between the hours of 10 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. Tuesday. Isreal has unveiled a new bomb shelter which has the capacity to house 2000 people in the middle of Tel Aviv. Still, the municipality asked residents to open bomb shelters as a precaution. Nachman Shai, who was the IDF Spokesman during the first Gulf War and is now running for Knesset with the Labor Party, describes Israel's 'passive' and active roles in war, and how it impacts internal politics and international relations. Image by ... that bomb shelters are everyday places in Israel, as common as tornado shelters … Many think of bomb shelters as part of history, somewhere people hid in the times of World War Two. The shelter, four stories underground and with space for 1,600 people, is usually a car park. An air raid siren went off in Tel Aviv Thursday. For those homes that do not have there are many cities that have public shelters. Photograph: Ilia Yefimovich/Getty Images Hospital Moves Infants to Bomb Shelters Ashkelon’s hospital is moving children and mothers to bomb shelters and sending home some patients. TEL AVIV // Underneath the plaza outside Israel's Habima national theatre, Israel has put the finishing touches on a new gathering place that it hopes will never host a crowd: the country's most advanced public underground bomb shelter. Mobile Bomb Shelters Supporting the People of the South. Residents of Tel Aviv and Rishon Letzion have no interest in being caught unprepared if Palestinian rocket fire begins to hit their environs, and have begun renovating public bomb shelters and updating emergency procedures. Rocket sirens sound in Tel Aviv after Israel kills Islamic Jihad leader in Gaza. The exterior of a public bomb shelter is shown in 2008 in Holon, a suburb of Tel Aviv. Literary Bomb Shelter in Tel Aviv Rachel Kadish May 10, 2014. NBC’s Ayman Mohyeldin visits an underground parking lot that doubles as one of the largest bomb shelters in Tel Aviv. It is also part of Tel Aviv's elaborate civil defence infrastructure. ... of the underground parking that can be used as a bomb shelter for 1600 people, at the Habima national theater in Tel Aviv… See more meetings in Tel Aviv, NA Meetings at Bomb Shelter Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday; Bomb Shelter--9:00 PM: 8:00 PM----- Share this - copied. Inside Israel's bomb shelters. Tel Aviv residents are asked to go to bomb shelters, the VoR correspondent in Israel reports. Most homes in Tel Aviv have built-in bomb shelters under a decades-old law, but some older buildings lack such shelters and safe rooms, so their residents must rely on public shelters. A shared bomb shelter is defined as a private bomb shelter- it is for your use and it is your responsibility to ensure its readiness for a state of emergency. ... its address and how they can be contacted by phone-Which public bomb shelters and parkings as protected spaces are located near your home-Prepare the shared bomb shelter in your apartment building. Israel’s ‘city that never sleeps,’ Tel Aviv, has been order to prepare its public bomb shelters. Inside One of Tel Aviv's Largest Bomb Shelters 00:46.