The government will convene a special cabinet meeting Sunday, to examine the home front’s preparedness in times of emergency.

Heads of the defense and security establishment will present to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu a number of scenarios. including evacuating civilians living in threatened areas to safer zones, guiding those who do not have shelters near their homes to underground parking zones, and how to conduct a forced evacuation of thousands possibly to Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria.

In addition the government will receive an update on the distributing of the upgraded gas masks that began last week.
 

On Thursday ,Defense Minister Ehud Barak, Chief of General Staff Lt,. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi and Home Front Commander Maj Gen, Yair Golan held a number of discussions in preparation for Sunday’s meeting.
 

Millions of Israelis have been under missile attacks from Lebanon and the Gaza Strip in recent years. During the 1991 Gulf War, Iraq's Saddam Hussein pounded the Tel Aviv area with 39 Scud missiles thought to have chemical warheads.

Israeli military intelligence warns that the country faces growing biological, chemical and nuclear threats.

The Home Front Command has conducted a number of exercises to test the level of preparedness in the event Israel comes under a missile attack or war breaks out on one of its borders.
 

Last month, Israel conducted one of the largest drills in its history, aimed at evaluating the response of the Home Front Command, medical services, rescue teams and municipal authorities to a biological attack on Israel.

In 2007 Israel established the National Emergency Management Authority which is part of the Defense Ministry and in times of emergency sets up a situation room and coordinates between the various relief agencies and coordinates public safety.