Iron Rain - Courage and determination on the Gaza border

Kassam rockets at the Sderot Police Department

Gaza Border - title

Courage and Determination
along Israel's Gaza Border

This website, created in February and March 2008, is dedicated to those individuals
who live in the Sderot, Israel, area, and are within range of the thousands of rockets
fired from Gaza in the past several years.

This website was created in 2008 and taken offline in 2018.
Because of the recent Hamas atrocities I am putting this back online for historical purposes.
Israelis have suffered attacks from Hamas for many years.

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Kibbutz Nir-Am Field Trip
along with other members of the Regional Council

Students, teachers, and parents from Kibbutz Nir-Am and other kibbutzim from the Regional Council took a field trip in early March.
One of the purposes was to acquaint students with the procedures of archaeology, in addition to exploring the area.

A big difference between Israeli and United States cultures is the Israeli involvement of fathers,
much higher than the average of a few minutes a day of "quality time" spent with their children by US dads.

In early springtime red flowers are in bloom in this Negev desert environment.
In a few months everything will turn brown.

Part of the trip involves short lectures.

Any trip in Israel involving young people requires security,
even in relatively safe areas such as kibbutz fields or a park.
And of course, it wouldn't be a field trip without a picnic (right).

In one of the exercises on the trip, students were given a box of sand which contained pottery fragments.
It was their assignment to reassemble the fragments into the original shape.