Syria admitted for the first time recently it has chemical weapons and may use them against outside forces.
Fears that those weapons could fall into terrorist hands or that jihadists could infiltrate Israel's border with Syria has the Jewish state on high alert.
Israeli authorities are quietly stepping up distribution of gas masks at malls and other public places. By the end of the year, the army estimates another half million gas masks will be distributed--an average of more than 80,000 a month.
But Israelis say they're not panicking about chemical weapons. They're just doing what they're told and getting prepared.
"Yes, I'm concerned but I don't think the masks will help us. Just God will help us, I think," one woman at the gas mask distribution center told CBN News.
"Everybody's concerned because nobody knows what happens. I sleep well at night," another man said.
The Israeli-Syrian Border
Meanwhile, chemical weapons falling into the wrong hands is not the only Syrian threat Israel is facing.
The Israeli-Syrian border on the Golan Heights has been Israel's quietest border for the last 40 years. But experts say that could change if and when Syrian President Bashar Assad falls.
"We run into a country that has no rule of law, no law, no authority and then it's used to regularly attack Israel, let's say in the Golan Heights with rockets, with terrorist infiltration, similar to what we see along Israel's border today with Gaza and with Sinai," Jerusalem Post military correspondent Yaakov Katz told CBN News.
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