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Saturday, September 10, 2011

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In the month of August, there were 178 terrorist attacks against Israel, in which nine Israelis were killed and 55 others wounded.
 
On August 20, the same evening I arrived in Jerusalem for a week-long series of policy and security briefings, emergency sirens wailed over the city of Be'er Sheva, where a 38-year-old former football player and soon-to-be father failed to reach shelter before crossing the path of the Grad rocket that ended his life.
 
Just another Saturday night in Israel, where the threat of attack is as constant as the fear in which most Israelis live.

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