Magen 48, a civilian first-response training initiative co-founded by Ehud Dribben and Ari Briggs, has conducted advanced training exercise for local civilian security teams in Kibbutz Be’eri, Israel, using the still-burned homes of one of the communities hardest hit on October 7, 2023 to train local responders for future attacks. The exercise included heads of local security teams from southern Israel, many of whom had fought to defend their communities during the Hamas-led massacre. This was the first time such training had been conducted inside the devastated neighborhoods of Be'eri itself. Magen 48's mission is to ensure that Israeli communities are ready to defend themselves until army forces arrive. The organization currently trains civilianFirst-response teams across 67 frontline communities in the Gaza border region and has trained more than 1,500 civilians in life-saving defense tactics.