It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s a big piece of an Iranian ballistic missile.

Every war comes with some new challenges. In the last round between Israel and Iran, there were several spectacular missile hits in Israel. The Weizmann Institute of Science—possibly the premier academic institution in the country—suffered billions of shekels of damage from a direct hit. Soroka Hospital in Beer Sheva also had a direct hit on a building that had been emptied of patients the day prior. Impacts of one-ton exploding warheads led to the destruction of thousands of apartments, many of which are still being rebuilt as a new round of fighting continues.

And while this time around there have been several large explosions due to Iranian (and Hezbollah) projectiles, possibly the biggest threat to Israeli citizens is the shrapnel from the intercepted and interceptor rockets. Pieces of Iranian rockets have been found throughout the country, including on the Temple Mount. One of our boys just showed me a small piece of a missile that landed in front of a neighbor's house. Most Israelis take seriously Bibi Netanyahu’s recent coffee advice that Israelis can go out a bit but always keep close to a reinforced room. While one can say that statistically, the likelihood of being harmed is very low, people realize that getting hit by shrapnel is a potentially catastrophic event. We are grateful to wake up in the morning without having had to run to the bomb shelter in the middle of the night. After an hour out shopping recently, I said my thanks to the Boss that I did not have to find a place to hide near the stores I visited.

Iran, like the one-hit wonders of the past, saw that its missiles caused a lot of damage and 28 deaths last summer and assumed that its program would work again. The percentage of interceptions appears higher and the number of projectiles sent is down over 90 percent from the start of the war. Whether they send 20 missiles or........

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