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HarmonySOS · A partnership in protection · 2025–2026<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/header>\r\n\r\n \r\n
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\r\n From Harmony Community<\/b> to our partners at UJA-Federation of New York<\/span><\/span>\r\n\r\n

\r\n شكراً.<\/span>\r\n תודה.<\/span>\r\n Thank you.<\/span>\r\n <\/h1>\r\n\r\n

For believing in a volunteer network before anyone else did — and for helping it become national emergency infrastructure<\/b> that Arab and Jewish families now rely on in the same breath.<\/p>\r\n

HarmonySOS is Israel’s most comprehensive map of protected spaces. Your support carried it from an emergency response to a maintained national utility — in three languages, with no login, free to everyone.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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A shelter, made visible<\/figcaption>\r\n <\/figure>\r\n
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Capsule K-28 · Negev<\/figcaption>\r\n <\/figure>\r\n
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Signed in both languages<\/figcaption>\r\n <\/figure>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/section>\r\n\r\n \r\n
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15,544<\/span>protected spaces on the live map — the count on harmonysos.com as of August 2026<\/span><\/div>\r\n
1.1M<\/span>views in the first week — used by people running for cover in real time<\/span><\/div>\r\n
24 hrs<\/span>from decision to a live national service, built by 85 volunteers<\/span><\/div>\r\n
1 map<\/span>serving Arab and Jewish families alike — Arabic and Hebrew, identical terms, no account needed<\/span><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n

Every number above grew under your stewardship — from 1,100 verified spaces in the first 48 hours to 15,544 today, a fourteen-fold expansion in the year your support sustained the team.<\/p><\/div>\r\n <\/section>\r\n\r\n \r\n

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\r\n Why this exists · Tamra, 14 June 2025<\/span>\r\n

It began on a night when four women had nowhere to go.<\/h2>\r\n
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An Iranian ballistic missile struck a residential building in Tamra — a city with no public bomb shelter, where six in ten homes have no safe room. Four women of the Khatib family were killed:<\/p>\r\n

Manar Khatib, 45 · Shada Khatib, 20Hala Khatib, 13 · Manar Diab Khatib, 41<\/p>\r\n

That night, instead of only grieving, a network of Arab professionals decided to build. Eighty-five volunteers<\/b> — engineers, designers, translators, residents walking their own streets under fire — went to work.<\/p>\r\n

“Instead of crying and complaining — let’s do something.”Mahdi Kabaha, on the night of the strike<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Within twenty-four hours, there was a map.<\/b><\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n

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Manar, Shada, Hala and Manar Diab Khatib · photos circulated publicly after the strike, via X<\/figcaption>\r\n <\/figure>\r\n <\/div>\r\n
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0<\/span>public shelters in Tamra on the night of the strike<\/span><\/div>\r\n
13<\/span>protected spaces listed in Tamra on HarmonySOS today<\/span><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/section>\r\n\r\n \r\n
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\r\n The platform today<\/span>\r\n

One map. 15,544 doors that open.<\/h2>\r\n

This is HarmonySOS as it runs right now — every green cluster is verified protected spaces, from the Galilee to the Negev. Three taps take anyone to the nearest shelter, in Arabic, Hebrew or English, with directions in Waze or Google Maps. No account. No login. Local authorities work from the same database through the Injaz–Sikkuy dashboard integration, and the record keeps growing as field teams verify new spaces.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Live capture<\/b> · August 2026<\/span>Web · iOS · Android<\/span>Municipal dashboards via the Injaz–Sikkuy integration<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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24 hours<\/dt>
from decision to a live public website, in the middle of the war<\/dd><\/div>\r\n
1,100+<\/dt>
spaces physically verified and published within 48 hours<\/dd><\/div>\r\n
1.1M+<\/dt>
views in the first week; ~35,000 users by day two<\/dd><\/div>\r\n
Hundreds<\/dt>
of semi-public spaces — parking levels, basements — verified in person, a record no official register holds<\/dd><\/div>\r\n
85 → 15 → 5<\/dt>
volunteers who built it, the team that carried it, the core that sustains it<\/dd><\/div>\r\n
1,500<\/dt>
Arab professionals in the Harmony network, on call as surge capacity<\/dd><\/div>\r\n
37 \/ 11,775<\/dt>
public shelters in Arab localities vs. nationwide — 0.3% for a fifth of the population (Home Front Command data, Jan 2025)<\/dd><\/div>\r\n
8 June 2026<\/dt>
validated under live fire — users reached shelter through the system in real time<\/dd><\/div>\r\n <\/dl>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/section>\r\n\r\n \r\n
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\r\n What your support made possible<\/span>\r\n

Not an emergency project. Infrastructure.<\/h2>\r\n

Most emergency tech dies when the sirens stop. Your support carried the hardest transition in civic technology — from a volunteer surge to a professional team that keeps the map alive, accurate and ready.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\n A first for Israel<\/span>\r\n

The protection no register ever recorded<\/h3>\r\n

Underground parking levels, residential basements, the lower floors of commercial centres — the places people actually<\/b> shelter. No ministry had ever catalogued them. Field teams verified them door by door: is it unlocked, who holds the key, how many people fit. Hundreds of these semi-public spaces are now on the map because you funded the people who walked out and checked.<\/b><\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n

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\r\n Findable in 90 seconds<\/span>\r\n

From existing to reachable<\/h3>\r\n

A shelter nobody can find saves nobody. HarmonySOS answers the only question that matters when the siren sounds: where are the nearest three protected spaces, and how do I reach them<\/b> — in Arabic, Hebrew or English, with no account and no login. A person running for cover has no capacity for onboarding.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n

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\r\n Validated · 8 June 2026<\/span>\r\n

Ready before the next siren — not after it<\/h3>\r\n

When Iranian barrages resumed and schools closed nationwide, nothing had to be rebuilt. The platform was current, tested and already installed. During the alerts, users messaged the team that they had located and reached shelter through the system in real time<\/b>. That is the only test that matters — and it passed on your watch.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n

\r\n Beyond the map · The Helping Hand operations centre<\/span>\r\n
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Lawyers & accountants<\/h4>\r\n

Handling war-damage compensation claims — helping families meet the 14-day filing deadline that most Arab citizens miss.<\/p>\r\n <\/article>\r\n

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Psychologists on call<\/h4>\r\n

Receiving mental-health enquiries during and after the barrages, routing the most fragile cases to specialists.<\/p>\r\n <\/article>\r\n

\r\n Alerts<\/span>\r\n

Arabic WhatsApp groups<\/h4>\r\n

Delivering Home Front alerts and conduct guidance in plain, spoken Arabic — not the formal Arabic no one uses.<\/p>\r\n <\/article>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/section>\r\n\r\n \r\n

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\r\n From the field<\/span>\r\n

The map, on the ground.<\/h2>\r\n

Every pin on HarmonySOS is a real door somebody checked. A few of the thousands of spaces your support helped verify and keep current. Every one was checked in person — entrance, capacity, who holds the key:<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Public shelter<\/b> · on the map with photo, entrance and directions<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n
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Public shelter<\/b> · Galilee — verified and published in three languages<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n
\"Protected
Interior signage<\/b> · the last 20 metres matter as much as the first 200<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n
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Capsule K-28<\/b> · Negev — 64 protected spaces serve ~165,000 residents of unrecognised villages<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n
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Street capsule<\/b> · verified, photographed, published in three languages<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n
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Buried shelter<\/b> · Negev — a dug-in container under sandbags; for an unrecognised village, the only cover there is<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/section>\r\n\r\n \r\n
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\r\n In motion · From the field<\/span>\r\n

Six reels. The work, in sixty seconds each.<\/h2>\r\n

Swipe through the strip — tap any reel to watch it full-screen with sound. These clips ran across Arabic and Hebrew social channels as part of the awareness campaign your support made possible — because a map nobody knows about saves nobody.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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The launch<\/h3>

How the platform went live \u00b7 48h<\/p><\/span>\r\n <\/a>\r\n \r\n

The story<\/h3>

Mahdi on national TV \u00b7 Arabic<\/p><\/span>\r\n <\/a>\r\n \r\n

Helping Hand<\/h3>

Legal aid + mental-health desk<\/p><\/span>\r\n <\/a>\r\n \r\n

Why we built it<\/h3>

The context \u00b7 English<\/p><\/span>\r\n <\/a>\r\n \r\n

The impact<\/h3>

Lives reached \u00b7 Arabic<\/p><\/span>\r\n <\/a>\r\n \r\n

Save a life<\/h3>

15-second campaign cut<\/p><\/span>\r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n

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