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

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

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

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

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

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

• Python Red Alert — Python wrapper for alert data

• Oref Alert Proxy — Local relay proxy for alert data

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

Home Automation

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Notifiers

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

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

• macOS Notifier — Native macOS notification center alerts

• Windows Red Alert — Windows desktop toast notifications

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

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

• Alert Call — Triggers automated phone calls on incoming alerts

Bots & Integrations

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

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

• Pikud HaOref Discord — Discord alert bot

• Multi City Alert Monitor — Telegram multi-city monitor

• Pikud HaOref WhatsApp Bot — WhatsApp alert forwarding

MCP Servers & AI

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

• Miklat MCP — Shelter location data for AI agents

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

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

Hardware, Analysis & More

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

• MMM Red Alert, MMM Pikud HaOref — MagicMirror modules

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

• War Alerts — Terminal-based CLI alert monitor

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

Civilian Readiness

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

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

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

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

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