Tomorrow the Siren Will Sound

Tomorrow morning at 10:00 am Israel time, for two haunting minutes, sirens will sound from the river to the sea; in every city, town, village, and corner of Israel. At precisely 10:00 am, the country will come to a sudden halt. Everyone will stop what they are doing. Every car, bus, and train will simply stop; while on every highway, in every store, classroom, and street, 7.4 million Jewish citizens of the Jewish State will stand as one, in silence.

Tomorrow morning at 10:00 am Israel time, we will look around at one another, and at our beautiful miracle-on-the-Mediterranean country, and we will know: Had we been alive just 80 years ago, chances are we would have met our helpless end as ashes scaling the walls of a brick chimney that spewed forth the incinerated remnants of countless........

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