The girls started their 3rd year of school in Israel last week!  The school situation has been crazy here like everywhere else with corona. I’m a worried about the upcoming weeks with the surge happening in Israel (and everywhere).  The girls attend the American School, so they start a few weeks before most Israeli schools. […]

The last few days have been without any sirens or running to shelters.  It’s been very quiet in Tel Aviv.  There are visibly fewer people on the streets and in stores.  Many people are not coming into the city from outside of Tel Aviv to stay closer to home.  Jim has been going to work […]

We had a night and day without sirens on Sunday. It was an Israeli holiday so many people were out on the beach and around town. Everyone was still on high alert listening for sirens that could happen at any time.  Mika had her Hebrew lesson and went for a bike ride. We were invited […]

We had a quiet few days and decided to stick to our routine since it was the weekend here (Friday and Saturday). We took Mika out for the first time on her bike to her favorite local pizza place.  We do this every Saturday for lunch. Josh decided to join us.  Our pizza had just […]

Mika and I were almost home when I heard the siren. People started sprinting , so we did too. I grabbed her hand and ran home as fast as we could. We had just finished getting popsicles from our favorite smoothie place. We tried to call her Nana, but she didn’t answer, so we decided […]

It’s going off constantly!  But I can’t seem to turn off the red alert app that tracks rockets headed into Israel.  A sense of uneasiness comes over me even when it clearly shows most of the missiles are not close to Tel Aviv.  I look around and people are going about their normal lives to […]