Tag: Human Interest Stories
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...
Backpacks for Kids reach Sderot Children
Backpacks for Kids reach Sderot Children
By Anav Silverman
As the start of the school year draws near, Sderot kids are getting ready for classes and tests, accompanied by the expected routine of ‘red alert’ alarms...
A glimpse of family life in Sderot
Local bat mitzvah girl celebrates by helping protect one house from Qassam rockets.
Last month, a few days before Yom Ha'atzmaut, my family and I went to Sderot. The trip was the idea of my...
Sderot Community Treatment Theater
The Sderot Media Center, a project of The Sderot Information Center for the Western Negev Ltd, was pioneered to provide the people of Sderot and the Western Negev with an agency that would facilitate...
Five Days in Sderot
It is now about 3.15pm on Thursday 12th June 2008. I am following an Israeli tradition during times of danger and reassuring my mother that, although there are Qassams and mortars falling all around...
Celebrating Passover with Sirens and Qassams
On Saturday night, April 19, Jewish people around the world celebrated Passover in the peace and quiet of their homes. In southern Israel, the residents of Sderot and the western Negev celebrated Passover under...
The Whistle of a Qassam Zooming Over
Forty kassam rockets were launched at Sderot on Tuesday, January 15 followed by another 50 rockets on Wednesday and an additional 40 rockets on Thursday night. I was in Sderot working in the office...
