We here in Israel began the last holy day of the Passover holiday not knowing what would happen when President Trump’s 8 p.m. Tuesday evening DC time ultimatum would take effect and how?  By that time here in Israel, 3 a.m. on Wednesday, hopefully we would all be passing a quiet night without any more missiles from Iran, although we might wake up in the middle of Armageddon.

Not surprisingly, we were awakened at 2 a.m. here in Jerusalem with an alert anticipating a “holiday greeting” wrapped around a ballistic missile or two from Tehran.  Sitting in our shelter we still had no idea what the future would bring within the hour.  It was not until 8 a.m. that we found out that a qualified cease fire had been agreed to by Iran and the US.  We ourselves found out from the security detail of Israeli President Herzog who were in position outside our synagogue anticipating his arrival sometime after the 8:15 a.m. start time of........

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