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Letter from Jaffa: ‘It was the loudest boom I have ever heard’

JL;DR SUMMARY Deborah Danan's vivid account from Jaffa captures the harrowing reality of living under missile threats in Israel. 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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IranIron DomeMissile StrikeChildrenSecurityCommunity ResiliencePsychological ImpactJaffaEmergency Response

Places mentioned

Jaffa, Tel Aviv District, Israel
"JAFFA, Israel It was after 2 a.m. by the time I finally fell asleep, after yet another siren sent us scrambling to the safe room in our Jaffa apartment, which has transitioned at least for this iteration of war into a kind of Japanese-style tatami bed, sprawling mattresses wall-to-wall."
Bat Yam, Tel Aviv District, Israel
"Even his home in Bat Yam had rattled from the impact, he said."
Beersheba, Southern District, Israel
"Then a video from Beersheba: Soroka Hospital had taken a direct hit at the same time as Jaffa."

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