When I asked the person in charge of the trip to Eilat organized by the association of pensioners of my former place of work whether there would be some security or at least someone with a weapon on the bus he expressed surprise and answered in the negative, insisting that the roads were safe. Still, we went, having decided that we needed a change from our routine, and hoping for the best. In the event our journeys to and from Eilat were uneventful, although a missile fired by the Houthis did get through Israel’s defences while we were there. One evening we heard a muffled ‘boom’ as we were sitting in our hotel room. Luckily no damage was caused, but the consequences could have been dire. How and why our defences neither caught the missile nor set off any alarm in the town is a mystery. But there have been worse failures of Israel’s........

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