The final draft of the inquiry commission’s report on the home front’s preparedness ahead of the recent Lebanon war will be made public only next week, but some of its conclusions are already evident.
According to the report, the government failed to identify the emergency situation in the war’s aftermath and did not declare an economic state of emergency; in addition, the committee’s report states that the home front was ill-prepared for the war, while private entrepreneur Arkadi Gaydamak was the only one successful in tending to the needs of the northern residents.
Ynet has learned that the report also calls for an immediate and conceptual change in the home front’s level of preparedness; committee members contend that the government failed to understand the need to prepare the home front on an operational level, citing the fact that municipality heads in the north did not know who to turn to when they were in need of additional psychologist and counselors during the war.
The committee members further state that the term “home front” should be replaced with “administering the civilian aspect of the war.”
Two weeks ago Ynet published the committee’s initial findings, according to which Defense Minister Amir Peretz ’sdecision not to activate procedures for an emergency status economy was ‘strange.’
According to the findings, Peretz waiting ten days before convening a meeting on the subject, at the end of which, he rejected proposals calling for such activation.
First published: 18:09, 09.04.6