Terrorist attacks, rockets from Gaza and Lebanon. Something is brewing in Israel again. A site visit to a kibbutz on the border with Lebanon and the question: what comes next?
By Steffi Hentschke
Youval Picard was kneeling in the vegetable patch when the sirens wailed. That was on Thursday, when radical Palestinians fired rockets at Israel from Lebanon. Most of them flew directly over Chanita, the kibbutz where the 18-year-old lives – a kind of barricade on the border with the hostile neighboring country. Picard had learned in kindergarten what he had to do now: run. It was a hundred meters to the kibbutz administration building, a concrete building with windowless corridors. “It’s the safest building in town,” Picard said a day later, repeating the phrase over and over in a mixture of excitement and shock.