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The Israel Electricity Company claimed today, Friday, that the main defect that caused power outages in many areas around “Israel”, during the last night, was not the result of a cyberattack. However, the “Yediot Aharonot” website reported that the electricity production units at several power plants had stopped working. Despite this, security sources told Channel 12 television that they did not rule out the possibility of a cyber attack.
According to security sources, three power plants collapsed one after another, and a third of the country’s population was left without electricity in the middle of the night. “There is no national pressure (on the power grid) in the middle of the night, and there is no pressure on any power plant, so there is a high possibility that there will be talk of a cyber attack.”
The Department of Energy said it was investigating the circumstances of the event. And Israeli security reports recently said that a cyber war is taking place between the Israeli entity and Iran, with the two sides trading cyber attacks almost daily. In recent months, Iran has attacked Israeli water networks, while “Israel” has attacked the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas and confused its work.
The electricity company said in a statement that “last night, due to a transitory event in the network connected to the south of the country, the Be’er Tofia private plant stopped working and, after a series of reactions, the production units of the Dalia and Ghizer private plants of the Electric Company stopped working. “
The company added that “categorically, this is not a cyber event. Like any unknown event, the utility is examining the situation and conducting an investigation. Power is reported to have quickly recovered and within 40 minutes the power supply returned to normal. In general, the power grid, in an automatic defensive response. He took the initiative to cut off the power supply via a “pressure relief” to avoid a wider blackout, and when it stabilized, the support units for those who fell and so it happened this time as well.
Electricity was cut shortly before one in the morning last night in many areas of the Israeli entity. Although the power company claimed that the “grid will stabilize” in a quarter of an hour, many citizens reported continued power outages in Jerusalem, Ashdod, Ramat Gan, Rishon Lezion Herzliya, Dalyat al-Carmel, Hod Hasharon, Kfar Saba, Or Yehuda, Shoham and many other areas. Others, according to Yedioth Ahronoth.
The electric company’s website went down and the company’s phone line went down. Traffic lights in central “Israel” and other areas stopped working, and part of the “Ayalon” central street network near Tel Aviv was covered in darkness.
