I woke up this morning at a quarter to seven to an enormous boom right outside the bedroom window.
I jerked my head up, like the deer in Bambi when the shots are fired in the forest. My first thought is, Oh shit they’ve bombed Beitar…
My husband mumbles, “Don’t worry about it,” and my second thought [...]
On Sunday nights there is usually nothing on TV for basic-cable watchers; or at least this one. Tonight, however, National Geographic had a special on anti-terrorism technology. And wouldn’t you know, Israel served as all of their examples for technological solutions to preventing terrorism.
Sure, they butchered our names - Amos is ‘Aymus’, Pessach is [...]
This hasn’t happened in a while, but today was a high terror alert in Jerusalem so the police were everywhere. Here’s what I watched from my office window after police discovered a suspicious package near the Malha mall:
The bomb squad guy getting the act together with (Israeli) man’s best friend.
Traffic backed up to the mall. [...]