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A war with Hezbollah now looms, but perhaps, since both sides know that they will suffer terrible damage, it will continue to be avoided. Hezbollah has 130,000 rockets and missiles, some of which, through sheer numbers, managed to avoid interception by Israel’s three-layered anti-missile defense, consisting of Arrow-2 and Arrow-3, David’s Sling, and Iron Dome. Even now, the IDF must be calculating how many, in that vast array of rockets and missiles, can be destroyed on the ground, before they are launched, by Israeli airstrikes and missiles. And the IDF has to estimate, too, how many of Hezbollah’s rockets and missiles will get through those anti-missile defense systems and land on Israel’s cities, including Haifa and Tel Aviv.
More on one casualty of such a war — Israel’s electricity grid — and how soon that grid can be repaired, has been the subject of heated discussion, about which you can find more here: “‘If Nasrallah wants to take down Israel’s power grid, he only needs to make a call,’ Noga CEO says,” Jerusalem Post, June 20, 2024:
The CEO of Noga – Israel Independent System Operator Ltd., Shaul Goldstein, said there is no guarantee that there will be electricity in Israel in the event of a future war with Hezbollah on Thursday at the Institute for National Security Studies conference in Sderot.
“After 72 hours without electricity in Israel, living here will be impossible. We are not in a good state and unprepared for a real war,” Goldstein said. He added that Hezbollah could easily take down Israel’s power grid.
“If Nasrallah wants to take down Israel’s power grid, he only needs to make a phone call to the person in charge of Beirut’s power system, which looks exactly like Israel’s. He doesn’t even need a drone; he can call a second-year electrical engineering student and ask where the most critical points in Israel are – everything is on the internet. I won’t say it [exactly where] here, but anyone who goes on the internet can find it,” Goldstein said.
“Israel is an energy island, and we need to supply ourselves – this is also our advantage; we are trained to work in isolation. When I took the position [as CEO of Noga] and began researching what the real threat to the electricity sector is, I asked – let’s say a missile hits the electricity sector, and there’s a power outage for one hour, three hours, 24 hours, 48 hours, 72 hours, and beyond. What happens to Israel in such a situation? The bottom line is that after 72 hours – it is impossible to live in Israel,” Goldstein warned at the beginning of his remarks.
“He added, “People do not understand how much our lives here depend on electricity.”…
More and more Israelis have been buying home generators in preparation for the possibility of the country’s electric grid being brought down by missiles launched by Hezbollah.
Energy and Infrastructure Minister Eli Cohen commented, “The State of Israel will not be left alone. We are preparing for every scenario, holding discussions and assessing the situation, and spending billions of shekels to ensure a regular supply of energy to all Israeli citizens.”
He continued, “In recent months, we have increased our inventory and purchased a lot of equipment in order to have backups. The State of Israel has the ability to generate electricity from a large variety of sources – we have gas rigs, we have huge reserves of coal, and we also generate electricity from renewable energy. Many actions, which cannot be specified, have been taken to ensure a regular energy supply. The chance of a power outage for many days is very low.”
Israel has many sources of energy: vast coal deposits, natural gas from the Tamar and Leviathan fields in the eastern Mediterranean, an ever-expanding number of wind farms and solar energy collectors, can all be used to provide energy to restart a damaged electrical grid. I would like to believe the reassuring words of Energy and Infrastructure Minster Eli Cohen, about the preparations being made for every scenario, in case of attacks on the country’s electricity grid. Perhaps it will be possible to switch, within days, from energy sources that now power the electricity grid — natural gas and oil — to others, including coal, wind and solar. But the view of Shaul Goldstein, the CEO of Noga (the Israel Independent System Operator Ltd.,) which he just delivered to the Institute for National Security Studies conference in Sderot, is frightening, and while he has been denounced for revealing too much about the ease with which Israel’s electrical grid could be taken down, he has not been convincingly refuted. I hope he is wrong when he says that Israel would not be able to survive a 72-hour total takedown of its energy grid. I fear, however, that he is right, but few want to listen to such unnerving forecasts. It was the same way before October 7, when those who warned of an impending Hamas attack were right, but ignored by those higher up, who refused to believe the bad news — with the results we all see.
My Mom was already advocating burying power lines underground back in the 1950s, for aesthetic reasons 🙂
In my town power lines are buried in residential areas. Aesthetically pleasing and fairly safe from sabotage.
Also protects against cross-current causing cancers, mainly of the blood – the IEEE has advised against putting power lines near residential areas since the 1980s fir that reason.
…lol, saboteurs won’t care about the buried lines… they’ll just take out the substations and transmission lines. Your ascetically pleasing lines will be just fine!
Canned foods
Battery chargers
H20
72 hour candles
Hand fans
Willpower
The climate is quite hot which is a problem as is thise needing powered medical equipment. But, it;s a war for survival. Israel certainly didn’t start it or want it.
Somewhere Obama is salivating at the thought of dead Jews. As is the left everywhere and some on the right as well. If this happens, I hope the revenge is served cold and deadly.
Doesn’t Gaza depend on all electrical power and most, if not all potable water from Israel? If Hezbollah targets Israel’s power grid, are they not also targeting Palestinians power supply?
In my thinking, the long term loss of drinking (potable) water would be the most devastating thing about a power outage, other than life supporting equipment in homes and hospitals. Unless you have an old well and windlass or a hand pumped water well, access to homes even with minor plumbing would stop. Israel may have diesel backup pumps for water supply but those world famous Israeli desalination plants would probably shut down, or even with some backup power would operate minimally.
In the long run, an Israeli power loss would harm the whole region, including the Arabs and Palestinians. Does Hezbollah and Hamas not see this, or is their commitment to terror so all consuming, that nothing, even their own existence matters?
Sadly, if Israel’s power grid were knocked out, the Palestinians (who whine endlessly and with the world’s collective sympathy if one of them stubs a toe killing Israeli Jews) would be seen as the victims, even as they celebrated Israel’s misfortune. The world (and certainly the Biden Administration and the mainstream media) would care as much about Israeli Jewish victims as they cared about 10,000 Jews a day being gassed at Auschwitz 80 years ago
what kind of monster voted your comment down?
The Gazans would end up drinking sewer water, with consequent illnesses. The Pallys foul their own water supply, then expect Israel to supply them with clean water. From my reading, it seems to be a Muslim thing, they don’t make even an elementary effort to make their water supply safe, instead leaving it to Allah to provide.
I suppose if one can get used to drinking camel urine, sewer water might be a pleasant change.
Hezbollah cares little about Palestinians. The more of them are killed, the better for their propaganda war, which they are aware they are winning Israelphobia has taken root in the West. Israel can not do anything right in their eyes.
I buy some of my ammo from Israeli Military Industries (IMI) through one it’s distributors in the U.S.
At the range I feel like I have David’s Sling at my side. It is that accurate.
I just got a pile from MidwayUSA👍
Well done sir. They are having a sale until the end of the month. But they have sales often enough.
Hezbolass should be destroyed quickly and without mercy.
They are hiding underground and don’t care about the civilians.
The heaviest bombs should be used non-stop.
The best defense is always a good offense.
Better nuke the Bekaa Valley and South Lebanon. AND IRAN TOO, AS THEY ARE DIRECTLY BEHIND THIS.
Or wait for Trump to get in so he will NUKE THEM.
Some years ago Israel had a forum with discussions about protecting its electrical grid. At that time I would have hoped they had made serious improvements. With the help of the Israeli high-tech sector and its research institutions, that was the time to address not only Israel at war without electrical power, but also the massive and long-lasting damage that could be lethal to Israel in the event of an EMP event.
Destroying the grid is one thing, but destroying all electrical power PLUS all electronic devices – decimating virtually all communications (TV, radio, internet, phonrs) , all automotive, medical, transportation, water, etc. – would literally put the region back 200 years for a long time. If Israel had the foresight to adapt to new EMP-proof technologies, employing, for example terahertz technologies and others, then we would not worry. Perhaps its military has…? But for the rest of the country, they will all be cut off from civilization.
devices have batteries that would continue for some time. And generators can recharges device batteries. and run essential systems for a while.
Taking down the grid sounds like a good reason to destroy the aggressor and all of his friends including the chubby starving Gazans once and for all. At least then we dont have to all cry for them anymore.
Read “Total Power” a Jack Reacher novel about the USA’,s grid being sabotaged.