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Day in the Life of an Israeli During War

JL;DR SUMMARY Israeli writer Sheri Oz shares a personal account of living through air raids in Israel, especially under the threats posed by Hezbollah and Iran. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Rocket AttacksHezbollahIranSecurityPsychological ImpactCivilian LifeBorder ConflictSiren Alerts

Places mentioned

Israel
"Israeli police officers attend to a rocket impact site on the Israel-Lebanon border."
Haifa, Haifa District, Israel
"If Hezbollah targets Haifa, which is in northern Israel but not that far north, I get 30 to 90 seconds between the siren and booms of interception."
Northern District, Israel
"Dvoskin described life along the border not as constant panic, but as moving between what he calls bubbles of sanity The upper Galilee is at its most striking springtime beauty."
Kibbutz Snir, Northern District, Israel
"Oren Dvoskin, a resident of Kibbutz Snir on the Lebanese border, told me about driving his daughter home from a nearby junction and suddenly seeing a rocket whose trajectory would go directly over his car."

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