Pope Benedict XVI is visiting the Holy Land for a week long tour, the first since Pope John Paul II came in 2000 and only the third visit in recent papal history.
Bringing and escorting the Pope around Israel is not a simple matter. In fact, much of Jerusalem is coming close to shutting down this week to make way for an enormous security detail. Dubbed “Operation White Cloak”, His Holiness will have over 80,000 security personnel in his retinue, including over 60,000 policemen.
Hashmira Security Technologies LTD. has set up a command and control center to supervise secuirty during the Pope’s visit to Israel.
According to an article in Globes:
Hashmira’s command and control center will provide remote monitoring solutions of the sites being visited by the Pope to Israel’s police and security forces.
The system that Hashmira has set up is estimated to have cost millions of shekels and will link to the Pope entire itinerary while he’s in Israel, including Jerusalem’s Old City, Yad Vashem, Hadassah Medical Center in Ein Kerem, the Notre Dame Hospice in Jerusalem, the residence of the Vatican Ambassador to Israel, and the Church of the Annunciation in Nazareth.
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