What happens when Hezbollah’s missile hits the biggest Arab city in Israel?
When just about to fall asleep, the red alert notifications went off on my phone by my bed. As I was reading the long list of towns and cities in which families were getting kids out of bed to run for shelter, I heard booms in the distance. A quick message to my community Whatsapp […]
Why I am not alarmed about Hezbollah’s videoclip of my home in Haifa
Hezbollah published a nine-minute videoclip of drone images taken over Haifa, confirmed as such by the IDF. The images are sharp and anyone familiar with the city and its environs can easily pick out the streets, the shopping centers, the homes, and perhaps some people will even recognize their cars driving from somewhere to somewhere […]
Northern Israel: Why is this not called a war yet?
On the morning of our Shavuot holiday, I was happily sitting at my crafts table doing some macrame and listening to a lecture by Einat Wilf on Zionism and anti-Zionism (to be written up at some later time). My mood was suddenly disrupted by red alerts flashing across the top of my smartphone screen along […]
What we need to know about Hezbollah (but are afraid to know)
War-time-scrambled-Waze put my location somewhere in Beirut. But that is not what made my drive from Kibbutz Lohamei Hageta’ot back home to Haifa yesterday difficult. After all, I had driven those roads for years and needed no help getting around. What made the trip home hard was because my head was filled with the unpleasantries […]