Iranian Missile/Drone Strike, aka: What.....A.....Night.....

 Iran has increased its rumbling (for lack of a better word) for the past few days, leading many schools that started Pesach break on Friday to send kids home with extra work for *after* Passover has finished in case school can't resume. Friday, Iran sent warnings that an attack would happen in the next 24-48 hours. Okaaaaay......Penina and Menashe spent Shabbat with us, not so much because any of us were so stressed, more because we were having a mellow Shabbos and they had had a busy week. Shabbos, thankfully, was beautifully quiet. Maybe Iran was having second thoughts? Went to the tehillim group on my street and said some extra.....

Menashe, Penina, Ilana and I went to the biggest grocery store in the area Saturday night to do our Passover shopping. I felt like, "at least if something happens, we'll have our matzah and jam". Didn't buy the dairy products, so no cream cheese and jam :)

And then.....

Around 10:30, just as we were finishing the shopping, Iran announced that they had started sending missiles that wouldn't arrive for a few hours

and the Israeli government announced that everyone should stay near a bomb shelter

and that all schools and pre-Pesach camps/programs would be closed today and tomorrow (Sunday and Monday)

WHAT A NIGHT. The first missiles arrived around 1:30 in the morning. The noise was unbelievable.....a LOT of missile interceptions seen/heard from our city (b''H although many areas close to us got azakot/sirens and had to enter their bomb shelters, our city did not) and fighter jets going all through the night. (I heard that something like 99% of the Israeli air force was in the air last night)

(A friend's photo and caption)

We were up most of the night (I have NEVER texted with so many people at 3 in the morning before) and have also never before said so much tehilim in the middle of the night (Shalom Shachne found an article [it's in Hebrew, lmk if you want the link] that says that the most popular Google search from Israel last night was for people looking to say tehillim). 

Best memes of the night (just a little Pesach humor)

All in all, an extremely miraculous night. Thank you, Hashem. According to the Wall Street Journal, over 350 drones and cruise and ballistic missiles were launched at Israel and zero people died and only one person (a Bedouin girl) was seriously injured. In the meantime, economists are estimating that the cost of thwarting that attack (also known as "the first direct flights from Iran to Israel since 1979"), cost over $550 million (maybe you want to invest in an Israel Bond?!)

And sorry I am too darn tired to write a more coherent blog post. This will have to do!!