Tag: Creative Writing Contest
Nakba Day a Disastrous Tactic for Mideast Peace
As I celebrated Israel's Independence Day last week, I did so warily. Recalling the night before, the 25,310 Israeli soldiers and civilians who died for this country during the past 63 years of its...
The Story of Moran, Who Lives in Sderot
Or Adam, 45, Sderot
A.
Noam is two years old, he lives in Jerusalem.
Idan is six years old now. He lives in a Moshav.
In a green and fabulous kibbutz, Rinat is eight years old, already a...
In the Name of God
Livnat Shaubi, 23, Sderot
Ordinariness
An explosion's echo.
Smokey mushrooms in the sky.
The smell of burning.
A shout.
An alarm.
People gathering in a mass.
Women crying.
Babies whining.
The storm after the silence.
A vision of the end of days.
Broken shouts of mothers...
JUST ANOTHER DAY
Tom Adam, Ninth grade, Sderot
Just a normal Sderot day - another rocket alarm. You might say that we automatically run to the shelter. Quiet. This is the only time in which I manage to...
Reem Balsan
Ram Balsan, Age 21, Sderot
Dawn has come, and with it,
the security alarm ‘rings’ with its timely precision.
Its ring is very strange: a calm vibration followed
by a loud boom.
The cabinet extends its finger to this...
As Long As We Try
We look the children in the eye, but we do not understand.
How much we hurt them.
For we all know that kassams are not birds.
That’s what Hannah, the kindergarten teacher, tells us--
that one day there...
For Eight Years
Yehudit Yifrach, fifth grader Sderot, Israel
For eight years we have been shocked so many times.
For these eight years we have not wanted to go play outside,
Because we fear the rockets are waiting for us...
TWO FRIENDS
Avital Bareli, twelve years old, of Sderot
Enough! I'm fed up! I'm going to call my father", shouted Ahieh.
He was angry. He had already had to live in the Motzkin area of Sderot for four...
Creative Writing In Sderot
"Sderot residents are busy writing poems, songs and stories for a writing competition being held next month in the rocket-battered town.
The Sderot Media Center initiated this project in conjunction with the local newspaper, Din...
