Tair Sassy, the manager of Nir Am, one of Meir Panim’s Youth Centers in Sderot, was brainstorming different ways to celebrate Israel’s Independence Day when the alarms began to sound.
Sirens indicated that once again her town of Sderot was under attack. In a split second, the town, which borders Gaza, was once again thrown into a shocking state of emergency, with schools closed and hundreds of families forced to remain within the confines of bomb shelters.
Safe inside the mamad, bomb shelter with her young family, Tair began to worry about her “other children,” the youth of Sderot, already so traumatized from the effects of previous terrorist activity.
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