March 11: Last Monday afternoon, as we were getting ready for supper in our Ramat Beit Shemesh home, we suddenly heard a very loud boom. The house even shook a bit. There was no warning or siren. Maybe they are finally really coming? We scurried to our safe room, in case more were on the way.
It turns out that Hezbollah had landed a missile in
the Emek Ha’elah Satellite Station, an array of large satellite dishes down the
valley from where David fought Goliath. Few people were hurt, many were
frightened, and Hezbollah claimed they had attacked a “satellite station
belonging to the communications and cyber-defense corps of the Israeli enemy
army in the Elah Valley.”
Now, I’m no stranger to the Elah Valley. Besides
being just over the hill, it has some of the best hiking and foraging in
Israel. There are top-secret military bases in the area (sorry, not telling),
but the satellite station never seemed to have anything to do with the army. It
is surrounded by a simple barbed wire fence, has little visible security, and
can easily be found online and on Google Maps.
Sorry, Hezbollah.
