Awesome Red Alerts: Open Source Projects For Israel's Emergency Alert System

I've been curating a list of open-source and community projects that expand the alerting surface of Israel's Home Front Command (Pikud HaOref) Red Alert system. The list now covers 60+ projects across 15+ categories. Here's the full directory.

Important caveat: never rely on community projects as your primary alerting mechanism. The official and only reliable alerts are those from the Home Front Command.

Official Resources

• Home Front Command Website — Official alert guidelines, shelter info, safety instructions

• Alerts History — Official alert history (geo-restricted to Israel)

• Pikud HaOref Telegram — Official Telegram channel broadcasting all alerts in real time

Third-Party Alerting Services

• Tzofar (צופר) — Popular alert app with Android, iOS, Chrome extension, WhatsApp channel, and web dashboard

• Oref Map — Live geographic alert map with real-time visualization

• RocketAlert.live — Live rocket alert tracker with map and history

Geo-Dashboards

• Oref Map — Real-time interactive alert map with shelter locations

  maorcc/oref-map View on GitHub

• Israel Geomap APK — Android app for real-time alert visualization with Leaflet maps and color-coded polygons

  danielrosehill/Israel-Geomap-APK View on GitHub

• Red Alert Geodash — Geographic dashboard for visualizing red alert patterns

  danielrosehill/Red-Alert-Geodash ★ 0

  Real-time dashboard for Israel's Pikud HaOref rocket/situation alerts with multi-map Leaflet views and polygon overlays

  JavaScriptUpdated Apr 2026
  pikud-haorefpreparednessred-alertssituational-awareness

• Pikud HaOref Map, Oref, Red Alert Map, Hatraot, Tilon — Additional alert map dashboards

  avisratmp-stack/pikud-haoref-map View on GitHub jilaboon/oref View on GitHub aviv4339/red-alert-map View on GitHub adipalko/hatraot View on GitHub gunr1984-jonost/tilon View on GitHub

API / Alert Feed Wrappers

There is no official public API for Home Front Command alerts. All projects here are unofficial wrappers built around internal data streams.

• Pikud HaOref API GraphQL — GraphQL wrapper with typed queries

  TuvalSimha/pikud-haoref-api-graphql View on GitHub

• Pikud HaOref API — Node.js wrapper with real-time polling and city mapping

  eladnava/pikud-haoref-api View on GitHub

• Python Red Alert — Python wrapper for alert data

  Zontex/python-red-alert View on GitHub

• Oref Alert Proxy — Local relay proxy for alert data

  danielrosehill/Oref-Alert-Proxy ★ 0

  Local relay proxy for Israel Homefront Command (Pikud HaOref) alert data

  PythonUpdated Mar 2026

• Pikud HaOref API Go — Go SDK for querying alert data

  5c077m4n/pikud-haoref-api-go View on GitHub

Home Automation

• Oref Alert (Home Assistant) — HACS integration with alert sensors and automations

  amitfin/oref_alert ★ 198

  Israeli Oref Alerts

  Python12 forksUpdated Apr 2026
  homeassistant-custom-component

• RedAlert (Home Assistant) — HA integration exposing Red Alert data as sensors

  idodov/RedAlert ★ 59

  Israeli Red Alert Service for Home Assistant

  Python6 forksUpdated Apr 2026
  appdaemonappdaemon-appsautomationhacshacs-custom

• HA Red Alert Automations — Ready-made automation YAML configs

  danielrosehill/Home-Assistant-Red-Alert-Automations View on GitHub

• Homebridge Pikud HaOref — Homebridge plugin exposing alerts as HomeKit accessories

  GhostOnyx/homebridge-pikud-haoref View on GitHub

• Red Alert Actuator — Physical outputs: TTS via Snapcast whole-house audio + smart light control via MQTT

  danielrosehill/Red-Alert-Actuator View on GitHub

• Oref Lights — Flashes Philips Hue lights red on incoming alerts

  sashka-ltd/oref-lights View on GitHub

• Roborock Missile Alert — Sends Roborock vacuum to dock on missile alert

  DeDuckProject/roborock-missile-alert View on GitHub

Notifiers

• Red Alerts Notifier — Self-hosted notifier delivering alerts via WhatsApp and Telegram

  YogevKr/red-alerts-notifier View on GitHub

• Red Alert OSINT Notifier — Pushover notification + OSINT module: Telegram monitoring, Groq intel reports, dual-model sitreps, RSS news context

  danielrosehill/Red-Alert-OSINT-Notifier ★ 0

  Unified notification and OSINT intelligence module for Israel Red Alert monitoring — Telegram channel monitors, Oref volumetric alerts, Groq-powered intel reports, Pushover delivery

  PythonUpdated Mar 2026
  osintpikud-haorefred-alert

• macOS Notifier — Native macOS notification center alerts

  amito/israel-homefront-macos-notifier View on GitHub

• Windows Red Alert — Windows desktop toast notifications

  Amtrtm/RedAlert View on GitHub

• MQTT Desktop Notifier, Pikud HaOref MQTT — MQTT-based alert bridges

  danielrosehill/Red-Alert-MQTT-Desktop-Notifier-Public View on GitHub yeheskel2016/pikud_haoref_mqtt View on GitHub

• Pikud, Miklat Alert — Raspberry Pi notifiers with LED and sound output

  erikzaadi/pikud View on GitHub t0mer/miklat-alert View on GitHub

• Alert Call — Triggers automated phone calls on incoming alerts

  ophiri/alert_call View on GitHub

Bots & Integrations

• CC Red Alerts Statusline, Red Alert Statusline — Claude Code statusline plugins showing active alerts

  alonw0/cc-redalerts-statusline View on GitHub lirantal/red-alert-statusline View on GitHub

• Pikud HaOref Slack, Oref Alerts Bot — Slack alert bots

  zivhundert/pikud-haoref-slack View on GitHub anthonyangel/oref-alerts-bot View on GitHub

• Pikud HaOref Discord — Discord alert bot

  Avir4m/PikudHaoref-Discord View on GitHub

• Multi City Alert Monitor — Telegram multi-city monitor

  rinad12/multi-city-alert-monitor View on GitHub

• Pikud HaOref WhatsApp Bot — WhatsApp alert forwarding

  lkeness/pikued-haoref-whatsapp-bot View on GitHub

MCP Servers & AI

• Pikud HaOref Alerts MCP — Live alert data for Claude and other AI assistants

  yaniv-golan/pikud-haoref-alerts View on GitHub

• Miklat MCP — Shelter location data for AI agents

  danielrosehill/Miklat-MCP ★ 4

  MCP to enable AI agents to guide users towards miklatim tziburim (public shelters) in Israel

  TypeScriptUpdated Mar 2026
  mcppreparednesssafety

• RedAlert MCP Server — Real-time alerts, statistics, shelter search, city data

  ozba/redalert-mcp-server View on GitHub

• OpenClaw Skill Red Alert — Agent skill delivering alerts via WhatsApp and TTS without Home Assistant

  shaike1/openclaw-skill-red-alert View on GitHub

Hardware, Analysis & More

• ESP32-C3 Red Alert — ESP32 microcontroller notifier with LED/buzzer

  amir684/esp32c3-red-alert View on GitHub

• MMM Red Alert, MMM Pikud HaOref — MagicMirror modules

  Moran-k/MMM-RedAlert View on GitHub oriyaakov/MMM-PikudHaoref View on GitHub

• HaOref Alert Analysis — Statistical analysis and visualization of historical data

  TomerAntman/haoref-alert-analysis View on GitHub

• War Alerts — Terminal-based CLI alert monitor

  yprez/waralerts View on GitHub

• Red Alert Monitoring Stack — Complete microservices stack: alert proxy, geo-dashboard, Pushover, Telegram intel bot, Snapcast TTS + MQTT lights

  danielrosehill/Red-Alert-Monitoring-Stack View on GitHub

Civilian Readiness

• Israel Civilian Readiness Guide — Comprehensive field guide and checklists for wartime preparedness

  danielrosehill/Israel-Civilian-Readiness-Guide View on GitHub

• Israel Preparedness SOPs — Standard operating procedures for Red Alert readiness

  danielrosehill/Israel-Preparedness-SOPs View on GitHub

• Pikud HaOref Guidelines — HFC safety guidelines formatted for AI context ingestion

  danielrosehill/Pikud-Haoref-Guidelines-0326 View on GitHub

• Magen — Curated resource list for civilian protection tools and services

  thewh1teagle/Magen View on GitHub

The full list with GitHub badges and live metadata: Awesome Red Alerts on GitHub