Just imagine the look on my face a week ago tonight when I went to prepare myself an actual Shabbat dinner, took the chicken out of the fridge and was met with a stink to high heaven! For ten minutes, I tried to convince myself that I was imagining it and that the chicken was just fine...but eventually I checked the date and even the day we bought it, it was expired - the date read May 4th!

There were 100 party goers whose fate did not become death and did not become enslavement - and that is because they crossed paths with a 24-year-old man named Ran Gvili - a man who was lying at home injured that morning when the worst attack in modern Israel's history broke out.

It can be hard to breathe - when the trucks upon trucks upon trucks of AID - ARE SENT - INTO GAZA - ALL THE TIME - and are LOOTED ON CAMERA - BY HAMAS TERRORISTS - the ones who RAPED us, MURDERED us and continue to TORTURE us. The ones who are LYING to you. USING you. LAUGHING at you. And yet - they've won.

It's important to keep a routine as best as possible in Israel, despite the prevalence and randomness of sirens going off, and it was...