Like automated entities we headed for our safe room when air raid sirens woke us at 8:30 this morning.

Messages from abroad filling my WhatsApp reflecting where people have yet to go to sleep and where they are first waking up. In the interim, Home Front instructions notwithstanding, we made a quick trip to the nearby Arab town hoping to find open stores where we could replenish my 5-kilo monthly supply of Medjool dates and a kilo of coffee beans before we run out in the next few days. The local supermarket open on Saturdays had a full........

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