Atara Orebouch, a Sderot schoolteacher, describes her terrifying experience in the classroom and at home when Gazan rockets rained down on southern Israel.
School was canceled and businesses shut down in most of the south and in the Tel Aviv area. Ben Gurion International Airport has been placed on high alert.
'It was scary and I wanted to sleep, but it didn’t stop. It always scares me,' a 5-year-old Israeli girl said after the latest barrage of Palestinian rockets on Friday.
'These numbers stem from another terror-ridden summer that saw hundreds of rockets being fired toward the area from the Hamas-controlled enclave,' reports Ynet.
Citizens of all ages, just out to celebrate the summer evening, fled in panic Sunday evening as the red-alert siren blared in the southern city of Sderot.
'The dear residents of Sderot and the Gaza perimeter deserve to raise their children in peace,' the Sderot mayor said after a rocket hit a local religious school.
While teenagers in many parts of the world obsess over college, social media, and the latest trends, their Israeli counterparts prepare to defend their nation in one of the world's top militaries.
Hamas terrorists in Gaza constantly plot to breach the Israeli border and attack civilians, but Israelis refuse to cower in fear, living full, vibrant lives instead.
US Ambassador David Friedman visits Sderot, a front-line community bordering Gaza which has suffered from thousands of rocket attacks since Israel ceded control of Gaza to Palestinian leaders.
The opening of a refurbished youth club in Sderot was celebrated with much joy and fanfare. The remarkable renovations were sponsored by Meir Panim, a leading organization that successfully diminishes the harmful effects of poverty in Israel.
The IDF's retaliatory attack on Hamas was a "justified Israeli response to a crude attack on Israel's sovereign territory," a regional spokesperson stated.
An Israeli artist discovered a way to fight against the darkness of terror and destruction: Turning the remains of Hamas missiles into Chanukah menorahs that sparkle with the enduring spirit of beauty and life!
Terrorists from Gaza continued their renewed aggression by firing yet another rocket at Israeli civilians in the south. There were no casualties or property damage.
Little known until recently was the incredible musical talent that emerged from Sderot, a city that was dubbed the “Bomb Shelter Capital of the World.”