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What is LSSD?

• Large Scale Sudden Disasters (in short, LSSD) are events that take place without warning and may cause great damage to human beings and their environment.
• LSSDs arise from a variety of damage generators that can exist either individually or together (at the same moment or one after the other).
  Damage generators can be natural (earthquakes, tsunamis, land-slides) man-made, including terror and war or critical infrastructure failures (such as in the electricity supply system).

What is the AFRAN Center?

• The AFRAN center deals with LSSDs in general. The AFRAN Center research and development work is carried out at the theoretical and practical levels.
• The approach of the AFRAN Center is multidisciplinary and combines knowledge from a large number of sources, in cooperation with experts from HIT- Holon Institute of Technology and various organizations in Israel and abroad.
• AFRAN is committed to
  • develop and adapt knowledge of disaster by multidisciplinary researchers and practitioners
  • guide the public, scholars, practitioners, and governmental officers.