Israel Update #4
Neil Soskin
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Hello again my family and friends. ?Another day, another 15-20,000 bags packed and another red alert. In all seriousness, Rest assured all is well. ?
?We had a normal, if quieter morning of packing snack bags. ?Quieter as there were less local daytime volunteers. ?Some one asked about numbers. ?Our group is about 55-60 people. Most days there have been another 25 to 30 locals. Today only 10-15. ? Just after lunch a siren sounded but immediately stopped. ?After heading to the exits we were told it was a false alarm. ?Then about 3:30pm- a real alarm went off. ?Take a look at the attached video(actually I could not figure out how to attach to this article, and will post it separately). ?We exited and took cover in shelters. ?On the video you will hear a whoosh, see trails heading up. ?That is the Iron Dome anti-missile system. ?Then you see 4 puffs of smoke that is those missiles exploding to knock out incoming missiles. ? The rest is hard to see, but at the end you can hear a large concussion that is a missile being destroyed. ?So again the system works. ?Both adequate time to take cover and as a defensive shield. ?
Now another “only Israel” story. ?On our first day. ?There was a local volunteer that has a grandson deployed as a tank commander to Gaza. ?In every box he packed he wrote a note on the inside cover. ?Today he was WhatsApp communicating with his grandson and mentioned it to him. ?Sure enough the grandson had gotten a package, and it had the note from his grandfather. ?A photo is attached. ?His note to Zayde(Yiddish for grandfather) was:
“…getting those boxes in the tanks was the highlight of our day" ?
Nothing to say after that. ?So I will sign off for the day. ?Thanks to all for encouraging messages. ??
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Be well and keep Israel and her people in your hearts. ??
Neil