I can only wonder where a statistic quoted in the Jerusalem Post of 3/11/26 comes from: “Iran’s missile fire rate has collapsed by 92%.” This week in Kfar Saba we have hurried to our in-apartment shelter perhaps the most times since the war began. I don’t remember how many times the sirens sounded (shortly after mobile phone warnings) during the day – probably four or five times. But for sure I remember a recent night when we had to enter our shelter just as we were getting into bed, two hours later, then one hour later, then when we were about to exit there was an additional attack. At about 4:30 we returned to our beds…

Michal and I are partially insulated from the war more *than many other Israelis because we have no relatives and not many friends in the army, nor do we live in the North, where the residents suffer attacks from Hezbollah with almost no time to protect themselves. (We have several minutes between the initial warning and the alarm to seek shelter.) Like almost all Israelis, we........

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