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 […]
Almost as soon as I finished writing the last post – it needed an update! The situation changed quickly and the next thing we knew sirens were screaming throughout Tel Aviv! Rockets started lighting up the sky just before 9 last night. We were about to walk to our 9:00 dinner reservation with friends, when […]
I remember it well a year and a half ago! I was scared and confused. November 2019, we woke up to school being cancelled and news of missiles flying into Israel! https://notinamericaanymore.com/what-a-day-missiles-target-israel/Here we are AGAIN today, with reports of missiles coming in and lots of messages from friends and family back home asking if we […]
Just as I’m getting comfortable living here, I had a “Not in America” experience at a car wash recently. I thought the toughest part would be finding a full service car wash near our apartment in Tel Aviv. I know space is severely limited in the city, so I was unsure if there would […]
Saturday morning, I woke up to my friend on the other line saying, “Pack your swimsuit and a towel, we are going to Secret Beach today.” Since I was half asleep, I didn’t have a chance to think about it. The next thing I knew I was rushing around trying to get the kids up, […]