Young people in the south: "They never get used to alarms" | Israel today

Eden Yehudiim, who sells at the convenience store of the "Tafoz" gas station, at the southern entrance of Sderot, admitted that she came to work yesterday with the help of a sedative.

She had just finished the confession and shouted for me to run after her to the back warehouse when already during the sprint the booms appeared, one after another.

"There was a fall," she explained while signaling to her family members, to make sure that everyone was healthy.

A young man, who came in after us, tried to encourage her with a smile, "You should be used to it by now", but even after another shelling, this time during the "Dawn" operation, 21-year-old Aden answered nervously.

"Should I get used to it? I'm tired of hearing that sentence."

After an iron dome effectively removed the danger, we went outside to examine the smoke mushrooms, which cruised leisurely through the air.

None of the locals were surprised to see 64-year-old Danny Jarby outside, who routinely refuses to evacuate even when there is a red color and the threat is real.

"Let a hundred thousand missiles fall," he laughed.

"It's a 30-year routine. Everything depends on fate."

Prime Minister Lapid at the Ministerial Committee for National Security Affairs, in Kirya in Tel Aviv

Between falls and alarms

Jarbi moves from village to village with a scooter on the back of which hangs a sign "Let the IDF win", and everywhere you can see who the preferred leader is. "Only Bibi.

I'm willing to give a kidney for him, he's my God," he fired the arsenal of superlatives at his disposal. "A torch?

He does not know how to convene a cabinet, and even if he succeeds in the operation, he will only recruit the left of the Gaza Strip to his side.

The rest, here, will always be Likud."

Not far from him was a group of bikers who came from Holon.

A group that reported that in every operation they used to chase after the rockets.

"I don't like Lapid, I even hate him," admitted Zohar Murdoch, one of the bakers.

"But he spoke well this time, and if he gives them a head start and doesn't fold with his tail between his legs, it will help him a lot in the upcoming elections."

deserted markets.

The Big Fashion complex in Ashdod, photo: Liron Moldovan

"Afraid only of God"

Sderot yesterday looked like an abandoned city.

The number of people walking around during the afternoon could be counted, they were even fewer than the number of volleys.

I stopped next to one of the few who was not in a hurry to go anywhere, and as if in a delusional reality, it turned out to be Mohammed Saadi, an Arab from Nazareth, who has been living in the south for the past few years.

"Everyone here calls me Osher."

What is Osher doing outside?

"Filming interceptions," he showed videos he made throughout the night.

"I only fear God."

I continued to the marina in Ashkelon, another place where such operations drain the joy of life.

Stas Zaretsky opened the local pub despite the warnings and the small number of drinkers.

"We have to make a living from something," half apologized.

"We posted on Facebook that we were continuing to work and on Friday evening we only closed at 11 after an alarm sounded. There's nothing to do, we're getting used to it. It will only end when the other side has something to lose."

Shalom Atton, who was sitting nearby with his friend Shlomi Vaaknin, said the atmosphere was reminiscent of Yom Kippur.

"We need to take down Fatah and Jihad, leave only Hamas and then negotiate with them on a two-state solution," he analyzed. "Negotiations are done with the toughest."

Noa Azoulai: "I'm safer at work", photo: Liron Moldovan

Ashdod: Few buyers

We cut to Ashdod, to the Big Fashion complex where a man was mobbed on Saturdays, but he was also affected by the operation.

"We are usually four saleswomen in the store and the amounts during these hours are crazy," said Noa Azoulai, who works in a cosmetics store.

"Today there are two of us and only a few buyers came in. I asked, 'Why did you come?'

And they explained that they had to ventilate. I'm safer here than at home, because I don't have an air conditioner."

Four employees took advantage of the wilderness of the compound to play cards.

One of them, Ilya Karajia, will inform the rest of another alarm.

"Hallusion," sighed Liza Kalsota, one of the girls in the group.

"No government has been able to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, so maybe we need a dictator to put the other side in its place."

Kalsuta is of Ukrainian origin and her friend Nastya Kurnia had no problem saying the explicit name.

"Putin is like that. What he is doing in Ukraine may not be good for our country, but someone like him would probably solve the problem here."

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