At first, some local media cast a shadow over the fence, reporting that Israelis rushed to buy basic food items, bottled water, toilet paper and batteries for flashlights. But soon the alarmists were forced to admit that they had launched a fake. In none of the stores where, for example, my family shops, have I seen long lines. Haifa Mayor Yona Yahav almost caused a bit of panic when he recommended returning to the installation of wired landlines, since “in an emergency situation, mobile communications can collapse.” This call made little sense, because most Israelis did not abandon landlines.
Ben Gurion Airport is operating normally. Of course, local residents are not unaware of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s threats to attack the main air gate. Someone decides to leave the country in time. There aren’t many of them. Personally, I only know one large family that in the last six months left and then returned.
Katya Mozgovaya, my former housemate, is a family doctor at a health insurance fund and lives in Rehovot. She has three children. Her relative from Germany invites Katya’s entire family to join him to, as he says, “wait out the difficult and dangerous times.” But Dr. Mozgovaya explained to me clearly, point by point, her refusal to leave the country, at least temporarily: “Firstly, I believe in the power of the Israeli army. Secondly, ‘don’t run too much.’ Thirdly, , terrorists promise to attack Israelis everywhere. I mean “it can’t be hidden. Fourthly, in today’s Germany anti-Semitism is growing and it no longer smells, but stinks.”
Jerusalem resident Reuven Ben-Haim, 69, a programmer by profession, is a former teacher at one of the technical schools. Ben-Haim admitted that, despite all the threats from a country as powerful as Iran, at this moment what worries him most is the fate of the hostages who remain in Gaza, about whom nothing is known. “Why are Red Cross representatives not allowed to see them, including small children?” – is perplexed.
Many Israelis are concerned about the US position. It is impossible to predict what actual actions the US administration will take in the event of active military actions by Iran against Israel.
Retired IDF Colonel Yaniv Rokhov, who worked for many years in the analytical department of the Israeli Ministry of Defense, in a conversation with me about the alleged attack on Israel, said: “Iran has long been involved in a confrontation with Israel through your representative. satellites It is doubtful that, most likely, “A single, even single, attack against the Jewish state will change much. It all depends on the strength of Israel’s response.”
In Hebrew, the meaning of the Russian proverb “seven problems, one answer” is, of course, the same, but in its exact translation it sounds like this: “Let us risk what happens.” Or very briefly: “Be that as it may!”
