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Israel
Projects and notes for life in Israel: the home front, open government data, and Hebrew and Jewish tech.
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Israel's open data portal has no changelog, so I built one
Israel's open data portal publishes a catalogue but no changelog — there's no way to ask what's new. Its CKAN API turns out to carry enough history to reconstruct one: 1,197 datasets across 124 months, and what actually landed in the last few weeks.
An index of Israeli open-data projects
A point-in-time snapshot of Israeli open-data resources I've been tracking — government catalogues, scrapers, MCP servers, and downstream utilities, grouped by domain. Useful starting point if you're building anything against Israeli public data.
A few Hebrew fonts worth knowing about
A short tour of Hebrew fonts you can install today from Google Fonts — the workhorses, the formal ones, the handwriting, the deliberately weird, and the Rashi script.
A small Hebrew date widget for KDE Plasma
I wanted the Hebrew date sitting quietly in my system tray next to the English one. KDE didn't have a widget that did this, so I built one — sunset-aware, configurable, and small enough to live between the clock and the notification icons.
Small ideas for Israel's home front, from inside the mamad
Thirteen small, practical ideas for improving Israel's home front alerting and public shelter system — covering the Pikud HaOref app, siren delivery, post-event guidance, mamad logistics, and the data and APIs that the whole ecosystem depends on.
Israel Alert Map: Real-Time Pikud HaOref Visualization
An Android app for real-time visualization of Pikud HaOref alerts on an interactive map with color-coded threat levels and Jerusalem close-up view.
Epic Fury Projects: Open Source Tools for Conflict Tracking
A curated collection of open-source projects related to Operation Epic Fury and the Israel-US-Iran conflict of 2026, including dashboards, alert systems, and OSINT tools.
Hebrew Calendar Resources: Tools, Libraries, and APIs
A curated list of open-source tools, libraries, APIs, and integrations for working with the Hebrew calendar, zmanim, and related calculations.
Red Alert Monitoring Stack: A Self-Hosted Microservices System For Rocket Alert Awareness
A Docker-based microservices stack for monitoring Israel's Home Front Command alerts with real-time map visualization, AI situation reports, push notifications, and home automation integration.
First Aid Protocols For Israel: Machine-Readable JSON Reference Collection
A personal reference collection of first aid protocols structured as machine-readable JSON, with sources from Israeli (MDA) and American (AHA/ARC) authorities, plus printable flowcharts and home kit shopping lists.
An Open Source Civilian Readiness Guide For Israel
A comprehensive, community-authored field guide and checklist system for civilian preparedness during wartime in Israel, based on Home Front Command guidance.
Bringing Internet to Bomb Shelters: A DIY Portable Connectivity Kit
How I built a backpack-portable kit that brings internet connectivity into underground public bomb shelters where concrete blocks all cellular and Wi-Fi signals.