Year: 2012

How is it to live in Rocket City?

Rockets begin to fall again

(Editors Note: while writing this story 3 more Kassams have been fired from Gaza) The Israeli military carried out air strikes on Gaza Sunday as well as on Monday, in the retaliation of the killing of 21 year old IDF soldier St-Sgt. Netanel Moshiashvili, who was killed on Friday morning.
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Meet Avi

Avi served in the IDF in a bomb disposal unit. When his time in the army was over he went to work for the police bomb disposal unit here in Sderot. He got married and was the proud father of four children. One day he went to Tel Aviv to.
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Shavuot 2012

I received a phone call on Thursday from someone I did not know. The person on the other end said he wanted to bless some people here in Sderot for Shavuot. He had a set amount he wanted to spend and was hoping to bless as many families as possible;.
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Meet Estelle

Estelle is a 35 year old single mom of two boys. Her marriage failed nine years ago because of her husband’s drug abuse. With her husband gone and the job market gone due to the years of terrorist Kassam rocket attacks on Sderot she was not able to find work.
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The Word

"And you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and you shall be careful to observe these statutes”... De 15:15 Most of us would rather forget; forget our sufferings our hard times, our past, yet YAH tells us six times in Deuteronomy to “Remember” Remember the slavery, the.
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Meet Rocky

Rocky is 7 years old. Four years ago he was out in the yard doing all the thing a dog does. Tseva Adom sounded and everyone ran for their bomb shelters, that is all except Rocky. As Shimon and his family counted off the fifteen seconds there was no explosion so.
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Monday Night

Monday night’s news read like this… “Palestinians fired a Kassam rocket from the Gaza Strip into southern Israel Monday night. The rocket exploded in an open field in the Sha'ar Hanegev region. No injuries were reported. The Color Red rocket warning system was heard in surrounding towns. Security forces were.
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Becoming One

The month of April was a busy month. Besides the 400 families we gave food to there was Passover, Unleavened Bread, Holocaust Remembrance Day, Solders Memorial Day and Independence Day. Passover started weeks earlier as we look to see if the barley was Aviv; a certain stage of ripeness. Depending.
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Remember Koby?

In spite of the current cease fire rockets continue to fall on Israel from terrorists in the Gaza strip. When you read that a rocket landed and did no damage that is not a true and correct assessment. With every ‘Tseva Adom” alarm that sounds old emotional wounds are reopened.
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Rocket Attacks Escalate

As we ended the celebration of Purim we were reminded that Haman is still alive and well. Over the last twenty four hours one hundred Kassams, mortars and Grad rockets have been launched from the Gaza Strip landing in all around us. There has been property damage and multiple injuries.
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