We’ve been talking about ceasefire all evening, with the understanding that if it is actually declared, the rockets will intensify and finally hit my neighborhood.  I’m doing french showers and no shampooing until then – and I have more than a minute to go for shelter.  I’ve got friends and former students who have less than 15 seconds.  i wonder how they change their clothes.  This of course includes Arab citizens as well as Jews.  I doubt that there are sirens at all in the desert, and yet rockets fell there.  And in the villages.  

I lost track of how many rockets have been fired on citizens here – 6000?  no, only 4.500.  So if there are almost 9 million inhabitants that’s half a rocket per 1000 people.  or one rocket per 500 families.  How many panic attacks does that mean?  How many heart attacks?  How many children like my granddaughter wake up sobbing in the middle of the night?