It was a week without any Kassams fired into Sderot and we thank G-D for that. But… (the big and infamous BUT) even though there were no Kassams the knowledge that at any moment you could here once again “Tseva Adom” puts a damper on the quiet. Yes it was.

This was another relatively calm week in Sderot. We are still having daily rocket attacks from the Hamas terrorists but not as many. Yesterday a house was hit by a Kassam just a block and a half from where we were celebrating Afeek’s Bar Mitzvah. The synagogue where Afeek read.

This article was written a week before the war in Gaza began. The hope was to finish the building of the bomb shelters before this war broke out - it did not happen. Now they will be finished under fire. The IDF is using the fields of Nir Am as.