by Rivka Chaya Berman, lubavitch.com
Bracha Leah Sassonkin‘s front door stands just over 300 feet from Israel’s border with Lebanon. The view she had yesterday of the attempt by Palestinians pouring out of buses trying to breach Israel’s border was too close for comfort.
Mrs. Sassonkin, Chabad’s representative to Metula, watched from her window as soldiers rushed to the area and tried to contain the illegal crossing. But Sassonkin stayed calm. “My children were with me and I don’t want them to get scared.”
In previous years bombing and rocket attacks along Israel’s northern borders forced the Sassonkins to take shelter in their home’s blast proof safe room.
Yesterday Mrs. Sassonkin and her children simply stayed indoors. She kept an ear out for a warning over the loudspeaker to pack up for the shelters, but none came.
“Unless it’s really dangerous, the army doesn’t want to add to the stress.”
Founded in 1896 on land purchased by Baron Rothschild, Metula projects like a pyramid from Israel’s northern borders. Surrounded by the mountains of the Galilee and Hermon to the west and east and bracketed by the Golan Heights on the south and Lebanon on the north, the area is largely, proudly agricultural.
Metula residents friendly with the Rabbi Moshe Sassonkin and his wife drop off the best of their crop, apples, pears, when the harvest comes in.
Chabad of Metula offers classes, Shabbat services, and a mikvah, one of the few in the area. Despite the events of the day, Mrs. Sassonkin did not see a downturn in attendance at Chabad’s functions.
“It did not stop anyone. You just get used to these things,” she said.
VIDEO: Clashes on Israel’s border
Time to line the border with mine fields.
she’s my younger sister’s onlineschool teacher!!!!!! plus we share cousins. 🙂
The Rebbe said that they were Arabs, not Palestinians. A Palestinian peoplehood does NOT exist. In fact, they came from Egypt, Syria and most important, from JORDAN. That’s the reason why Judea-Samaria is called “the West Bank”, because it was the western part of Jordan. Those Arabs are JORDANIANS, not PALESTINIANS. Stop using that word when refering to them, because it gives credit to the false claim that they are a people.
Stay strong!!!!
what is that.the rebbe never use that word.
the israely soldiers and all the couragous ppl who live in those areas!!! moshiach now!!!!!