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Sderot Mayor Alon Davidi

seconds. That’s the average length of time a resident of Sderot, Israel has between the sounding of a siren, warning of an incoming rocket strike, and reaching the relative safety of a shelter. It doesn’t sound like much, but it’s a quantum improvement over just a few years ago, when the average warning time was as low as seven seconds. Nor is it a rare occurrence in this town of some 26,000 residents. Since Hamas in Gaza — less than a kilometer away — began firing on Israel in 2007, thousands of rockets and mortar rounds have landed in Sderot or its immediate vicinity. Thirteen Israelis have been killed in such attacks, and dozens wounded. Virtually every citizen of the city has been, to one […]
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