Security, Emergency and Cyber Division

Security Department

• Providing a proper security and defense response for the needs of the Ministry, its workers and its institutions, against existing threats. Defining the purpose of the Security Department derives from the core areas it is responsible for with including aviation security, shipping, information security and worker reliability, preventing and thwarting hostile terrorist activity against Ministry branches (30 facilities) and employees, securing the Minister and ensuring that the secured subjects specified function properly in routine activities and during emergencies.
• Establishing, developing, adapting and directing security arrangements for land, air and sea transportation services in Israel, to it and from it, free of terror threats, including:

1. Security screening of foreign flights crossing/landing in Israel.
2. Issuing security guidelines to airlines in accordance with the division of responsibility.
3. ANZ – the supervising body responsible for controlling the implementation of the decisions of the interministerial HQ alongside the Minister of Transportation.
4. Directing the security of small Israeli boats carrying passengers for pay.
5. Coordinating staff work in the field of public transportation section security.
6. Security screening of land and air transportation professionals.
7. Providing a security response to the Ministry’s branches, facilities and workers.
8. Providing security for the Minister.
9. Prevention of arms smuggling through international marinas.
10. Information and reliability security.

Emergency Preparation Department
The Emergency Department is responsible for preparing the Ministry and the entire transportation array for emergency events and crisis situations, in order to ensure the continuity and functional consecutiveness of the array as a whole, sea, air and land.
During routine activities – the Department is responsible for mapping tasks, managing risks that may derive from emergency events, writing response plans in order to prepare the Ministry and the transportation bodies for the various events, in accordance with the national service goals defined by government bodies, including preparing infrastructure for the decision making processes during emergencies (operation centers, measures and accessories to help the decision makers), are responsible for the process of assimilating the plans including exercises, training, supplemental education, building work plans in these contexts and realizing them.
During emergencies – the Department coordinates staff work for the decision-making processes of all transportation sectors managed by the Minister/General Manager, expressed in running the situation room of the supreme transportation authority, featuring representatives from all bodies in order to formulate a comprehensive transportation situational assessment for making decisions at the national level.
The Department represents all transportation bodies vis-a-vis state elements (the National Security Council, the National Emergency Authority, the IDF General Staff and with Homefront Command, Internal Security/Israel Police).
, taking part in all activities at the national level, including exercises, writing policies and procedures. 

The Department operates on three parallel axes: the first, ensuring business continuity (transportation processes) of the transportation system, the second being ensuring functional continuity of the inputs allowing business continuity and the third being managing the transportation system under the defensive guidelines of the certified elements.

The Emergency Department constitutes a HQ body for the general Manager of the Ministry and is intended to allow ongoing activity in various situations; recently there have been a number of significant security events in the State of Israel, such as the Covid-19 pandemic and Operation Guardian of the Walls, these events had a major impact on the functionality of the transportation system, the Emergency Department assisted and was involved in all plans and the response, including creating a daily situational assessment, in order to allow the transportation system to operate in the best possible manner. On the one hand and assisting with the State's requirements on the other.

Cyber Department
In recent years we have witnessed a sharp increase in the number and severity of cybersecurity events that disrupt the proper functioning of organizations in Israel and around the world. Cyber and information security events may be caused accidentally or maliciously, by internal or external parties, causing significant damage to the organization's functional and business continuity and in certain cases also pose a risk to human lives. 
An organization's fortitude, its resistance to cyber events and its ability to deal with them while maintaining operational continuity, derive from its level of cyber defense preparations implemented during routine activities.
In order to reduce the vulnerability of each of the transportation bodies in the sea, air and land to cybersecurity events, the Cyber Department provides guidance to the organizations in implementing a cyber defense array, that will ensure the functional fortitude of the State of Israel’s transportation sector during routine activity and during emergencies, against the intensifying threats in cyberspace.
In addition, the Department is the professional element that accompanies the Ministry’s units and authorities in transportation projects and in implementing cyber protection using the regulation tools at its disposal.

Special Tasks Department

• Performing investigations and collecting intelligence in conjunction with the Investigations Department of the State Service Commission and Israel Police.
• Performing control and monitoring activity for irregular/criminal actions against the Ministry. 
• Protecting Ministry facilities via operations center and defense systems and advanced technologies positioned at Ministry sites.
• Assisting all State of Israel security and intelligence bodies.
• Performing forfeiture and dispositions with Israel Police.
• Licensing authority.
• Responsible on behalf of the State of Israel for heavy construction equipment for the purpose of using devices during emergencies in the public domain.
• Budgetary control and management for senior security department.

Contact Information
Aviation Security Operations center
Main telephone no.: 03-9599800
Fax: 03-9599808
Email (24/7): [email protected]

Security Department Call Center – for emergencies only
Telephone no.: 03-9545444
Fax: 03-9545443
Email: [email protected]