Orakta Shelter Access · for municipalities
Can every resident reach protection in time?
For municipalities, regional councils and the engineering firms that serve them: which homes cannot reach a protected space within the alert time, and where new shelters would protect the most people for the same budget.
The documented need
- 3.2 million people (33.6%)
- in Israel lack protection that meets the required standard, according to Home Front Command data cited by the State Comptroller (January 2025 data). State Comptroller of Israel, December 2025
- 15% of households
- report having neither a protected room nor an accessible shelter near their home. Central Bureau of Statistics, survey published July 2026
The two figures measure different things and should not be added together. How many people cannot reach a protected space within the alert time has not been officially counted; that is what the analysis estimates for one authority.
What the analysis does
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Inputs you control
The building layer, a population estimate per building, the list of public shelters and protected spaces, and the alert time for each zone. Your data stays yours.
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Can residents reach protection in time?
For every residential building we estimate the walking time to the nearest usable protected space and compare it with the alert time, allowing for slower walkers, slopes and stairs.
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Coverage and gaps
Each building gets a protection grade from A (good) to E (poor), with two flags: protected space unusable (locked, flooded or unfit) and not reachable in time.
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Where to build next
Candidate sites for new shelters ranked by how many more people each would protect for the same budget. An engineer designs and signs any project.
Pilot
Start with a pilot
Shelter Access pilot
₪9,900 (≈ $3,090)
Up to 2 districts, scope agreed in writing, result in 6 business days. Paid in two milestones. Extending it to Basic: ₪5,000 (≈ $1,560).
Shelter Access Basic
₪14,900 (≈ $4,660)
Up to 5 districts: full coverage analysis and ranked sites for new shelters. Full, with 25 shelter visits: ₪26,700 (≈ $8,350).
No VAT is added: Orakta is a VAT-exempt small business in Israel (osek patur). Prices are final amounts. Contracts and payment are in shekels; dollar amounts are a reference at the Bank of Israel rate of 13.11.2026 ($1 = ₪3.199).
Larger areas and annual monitoring are quoted in writing. An earthquake layer (open space first, otherwise a protected room with the door kept open) is in development and has no price yet.
Data and safety rules
- Results go only to the authority that commissions the work. We do not publish maps or lists of protection gaps.
- Population, age and disability data are used only in aggregate (statistical area, district or city), never per person or per household.
- No personal data is needed to run the analysis. If an authority shares any, it is processed only for that project and deleted at its end.
- Orakta does not replace Home Front Command instructions or an engineer’s design and signature.
Limits
- Shelter Access is new. The first pilots are run together with the authority’s team, on its own data, and the method is adjusted to what the pilot finds.
- Walking times are estimates from a model. They are checked on the ground in a sample of streets during the pilot.
- Results are only as current as the shelter list and the building layer the authority provides.
- The effect on injuries and deaths has not been measured. Value estimates are model figures, not results.
Scope a Shelter Access pilot for your authority.
Tell us the locality, its approximate population and who in the authority owns shelters. We reply with a written scope.