State Comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss's devastating report on Israel's fire-fighting services Wednesday, Dec. 8, confirmed that this vital service was close to collapse and in no fit state to tackle the effects of a missile attack on the population. The Comptroller spread the blame across the government and its ministers, especially the defense minister who has overall authority over homeland security. DEBKAfile's military sources disclose that the IDF's Home Front Command is in no better shape.
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DEBKAfile Exclusive Report
Russia's Vladimir Putin has reached out to the beleaguered Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri to get in on the ground floor of the as-yet untapped Lebanese offshore energy fields, DEBKAfile reports. He has also tested the ground for dipping into the Israeli gas bonanza, while offering Turkey substantial benefits in Moscow's Lebanese scheme. If Putin's multi-faceted plan works, Russia and Turkey will have a stake in Hariri staying in power and a stable Lebanon.
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Israeli and Turkish representatives have just held two meetings for the purported objective of patching up Turkey's quarrel with Israel. All that has come out of Ankara so far, however, is a fresh torrent of anti-Israel abuse from Turkish leaders and harsher terms for settling the feud over the Israeli commando raid of May 31 which killed 9 Turkish activists leading a flotilla to break the Gaza blockade, DEBKAfile's Middle East sources report.
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