Rosh Pina, in case there is a massive earthquake, or tsunami, or something.Israel's National Planning and Building Board ruled Tuesday to designate eight sites across Israel as mass burial sites in case of a nationwide disaster, such as a catastrophic earthquake (they say).
The Board's dire premise is that such a quake will result in thousands of fatalities, regardless of its geographic epicenter.
Another work premise is that in case of a nationwide mass casualty event (G-D forbid) authorities would be unable to accommodate timely burial, due to foreseen problems with identifying remains and the need to clear bodies in order to thwart the spread of disease.
Nevertheless, the National Planning and Building Board stresses mass burial would be a temporary measure, adding that DNA samples would be taken from each fatality for future identification and proper burial.
According to the Board, there is no halachic prevention for the measure.
The eight designated sites, which span from Rosh Pina in Israel's north, to Beersheba in its south, can each entomb 3,000 individuals. The sites were chosen after being deemed topographically suitable.
Read more at YNet
This is very creepy, and supposedly similar sites were picked out before the 6-Day War, just in case Israel didn't win.
Source: The Vicious Babushka Blog
Ezechiël 39:11-16
11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.
12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.
13 Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.
14 And they shall sever out men of continual employment, passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.
15 And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man's bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamongog.
16 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.
