Thousands of Lives Saved

                                                      

  By: Elon Ohayon,Grade 9

The Iron Dome is an Israeli invention that was made for the purpose of defending human lives. 

The system works like this: The device is aimed on the missile that was fired from Gaza or elsewhere. The target locks on the missile and fires a rocket at it. The missile and the rocket collide and explode in midair.

The purpose of this invention is to hit the missile before it hits the ground and harms innocent people.

Reflections from the Secured Room

By: Daniel D. 10 th  grade, Ort Afridar, Ashkelon

I wanted to share with you what I have been going through these past few days. Even now, as I am writing to you, tremendous explosions are being heard here.

As you know, Ashkelon, my beautiful city, is currently under missile attacks. As you already know, Ashkelon has been suffering this intolerable situation for several years.

Luckily, I sleep in the secured room, but not all people here are lucky. There are homes that do not have a safe room. Those residents should go down two floors, or hide in the stairwell. Imagine that you have 30 seconds to take cover. Before the 30 seconds are over horrific explosions are heard. When the “Code Red” siren goes off, I already know what to do. I close the window and close the curtain, and mother closes the room’s door. Lately, the window has remained closed, as there is no time to close it after the warning. Depending where you are you can have only 30 or 15 seconds to get to your safe room.

Going to the bathroom is a task, not to mention taking a shower. “Code Red" siren has caught us in some unpleasant situations.

In order for me not to get bored, since it is not easy to be indoors a few days in a row, I'm trying to keep myself busy like playing on my cell phone, board games and especially listening to the news.

Another thing I do while I am in the secured room is to be a good representative of our wonderful country. This is my second year on "Young Ambassadors” project. It is a blessed Project run by ORT, who explains our country to those around us. My mother and I, who is also with me on the project and coordinates it at school, do publicity through Facebook. I am in touch with people overseas, on a daily basis, by writing and by phone, and glad to hear they are supportive of us and give us moral support.

My grandparents live not far from us, but because of the situation we do not see each other, just talk on the phone.

Once in a while we are throwing out the trash, the siren catches my mother and me in the stairwell.

I love my country and know we have to be strong and eventually we will prevail.