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The town that measures life in 15-second intervals
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/mary-dejevsky-the-town-that-measures-life-in-15second-intervals-773885.html
Life here is measured in intervals of 15 seconds. It is how long the people of Sderot have between the sounding of the sirens and the inevitable explosion. Civic life is almost non-existent. People are on edge, unwilling to plan anything in advance, entertaining – if at all – at home, and fearful of dropping their children at school, lest it is the last time they see them.
What Israel seems to have learnt, however, is that it is not just with rockets, but with publicity that this conflict is increasingly being fought.
Life here is measured in intervals of 15 seconds. It is how long the people of Sderot have between the sounding of the sirens and the inevitable explosion. Civic life is almost non-existent. People are on edge, unwilling to plan anything in advance, entertaining – if at all – at home, and fearful of dropping their children at school, lest it is the last time they see them.
What Israel seems to have learnt, however, is that it is not just with rockets, but with publicity that this conflict is increasingly being fought.