If you're not there, you don't exist. For a whole week, people walked around the holy city of Elad in worry, their eyes raised to the sky. But the miracle, or rather the missiles, were hesitant to come.
Although Elad, like its other neighbors in the Dan bloc, prepared for their arrival - yeshivas were emptied, shelters were evacuated, and procedures were published, photographed, and updated - nothing happened.
Alarms sounded in Tel Aviv, Petah Tikva, Givatayim, neighboring Shoham, and even Bnei Brak. But, in Elad, there was silence.
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The synagogue parliaments discussed the unjustified phenomenon and the city that was once again being bombed. Some claimed that the sirens were on vibrate, others believed that it was a sign that the city was located in the territories, and a particularly persistent rumor claimed that the mayor met with the mukhtar of the village of Rantis and asked that they make a mockery of the neighbors and throw something in their direction, in order to satisfy the residents.
Thus the winds raged and raged, until on Thursday morning a rising and falling alarm pierced the airspace.
And rest came to the world.
There is a reward. Murphy's Law basically states that anything that can go wrong will go wrong.
For example, a person is waiting for a bus and is debating whether to take out a cigarette and smoke it. If he takes it out immediately, the bus will come before he has time to smoke half of it. If he refrains, then he will wait and dry out for at least half an hour.
The proposed solution to the problem is simple: take out a cigarette and, in a learned melody, say "What's your mind?" If the bus comes thanks to the cigarette, I've earned it, and if it's delayed, I've smoked it in peace. And so the blamer, Murphy, finds himself confused and tearing his hair out in embarrassment.
And why is this similar?
The day after the war, or the operation as they are careful to call it in Israel, the question of compensation will unfold in full force. Compensation for businesses, compensation for employees, compensation for cities that were damaged and those who were damaged by not being compensated, and so on.
And here is a suggestion for the order: The amount of compensation to the city will be equal to the number of rockets fired in its direction. Each rocket counts.
With the budget that will arrive, free cultural events and performances will be held for the city's residents.
And where does the money come from? The budget should be deducted from the payments that Israel transfers to the Strip. In this way, we will slightly erase the smiles of the shellers and raise the morale of the shelled. And if thanks to this, the launches will decrease even more, even better, and we will be found to be "profiting" in any case.
It is not sin that kills. The incident involving Rabbi Hanina and the Arod is well known, as he dropped his axe on the surrounding area and, hitting Rabbi Hanina, the Arod died.
While the beautiful souls of the world are beginning to cry out about the killing of 5 children in Gaza, they have somehow forgotten that thousands of children are being killed in Syria and Iraq, and that an entire plane with 300 passengers was also shot down by the Russians just yesterday, just because it got a little too close.
And in general, Russian President Putin has become a legend in this matter.
There's a joke about Putin and Obama playing a game of "Country City." At one point, Obama mentions a city that Putin doesn't know.
''There is no such city,' says Putin.
'"There are," Obama replies, "open Google and you'll see.".
Putin goes out for five minutes and says again: There is no such city, turn on CNN and see.
