In the months since the terrorist group Hamas attacked Israel, the JPI has provided tens of thousands of meals, equipment for the Israeli military, and other resources to the country. There’s one major threat, though, facing Israel, and it isn’t earning a great deal of media attention: the possibility of an attack on the country’s power grid.
That concern has been heightened by the looming threat of war with Iran and its terrorist group proxies, like Hezbollah, according to our recent reporting. In late June, one senior state electricity official, Shaul Goldstein, claimed — with some pushback — a cyberattack to Israel’s power grid could cripple the small nation in just a matter of days, according to The Times of Israel.
It’s important to note there have been some reports suggesting Iran has supplied Hezbollah with electromagnetic pulse weapons, or EMPs. Those alleged weapons, should they be deployed, “could destroy all communications systems, including the electricity infrastructure,” in Israel, Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarida reported after hearing from an unnamed Iranian source.
If that happens, such an attack could potentially “incapacitate the country,” Chernoff told CBN News.
“That threat has been leveled — it’s been pushed out there — and so the Joseph Project International … has been ramping up and purchasing generators that can be positioned around the country … so that there’s a plan B for many of these communities around the country,” he explained, noting providing generators in key locations throughout Israel would help “keep things moving operationally” if a cyberattack occurred.
As a humanitarian organization with messianic interests, the Joseph Project International is concerned with more than just supplying for Israelis’ physical needs. The JPI, Chernoff said, has become a supplier of goods and resources to messianic groups in the country.
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