Tag: SMC Blog
A ceasefire? A temporary relaxation? Hello, who’s relaxing here?!
A ceasefire, violating the relaxation, opening the crossing points, closing and reopening them, and closing them again. “Red Color” alarm, a Qassam being fired, a direct hit on a house, mortar shells being fired...
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From Tibet to Sderot
It would be the easiest thing in the world to relax, sit back and watch the Beijing Olympics on my porch in Sderot.
Yet, it is hard to forget flashbacks from exactly three years ago,...
We Remember!
Four years ago, Afik Zahavi, four, and Mordechai Yosepov, 49, were killed when a Quassam rocket fired by Hamas from the Gaza Strip struck near a Sderot nursery school at 8:15 a.m. June 28,...
The truth is right there, BBC
I’ve just come back from England after spending a whirlwind two weeks talking non-stop about Sderot and the rocket situation in southern Israel. I spoke at six different synagogues, covering basically all the different...
British Students Supporting Sderot
On our Gap Year in Israel with FZY we went on a siyur to Sderot, a beautiful town ruined by being under constant attack. Although we where told the dangers nothing prepared us for...
Relaxation
There are some people who talk about the relaxation, and there are others who wish to actually feel it.
The government, for example, advocates the relaxation and promises that it would benefit us. By doing...
Tough Questions from Sderot
Part of my job at Sderot Media Center involves a lot of translating. Because I am a native English speaker, and most of the staff is Israeli at the center, the translating is generally...
Life in Sderot
As I type away, I brace myself for the Red Color Alert siren. Here in Sderot, we have been hearing the sirens and rocket explosions all day, from early (Monday) morning until now in...
The Normal Life Experience
To go out to the street, to breathe the air of a spring day, to see people occupied in selling and buying, working and earning a living. To see people enjoying a nice walk,...
“Ceasefire” – We Cease, They Fire. Dejá vu.
Sderot and the Western Negev are the only places in the entire Western world which suffer from missile attacks that target civilians. In a few weeks, Israel will be celebrating its 60th independence day,...
