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“Unlike when rockets come 
in from Gaza or Lebanon 
and we only have seconds or 
minutes to take cover, we were 
told that we had a few hours 
before the missiles would 
arrive from Iran.” 
Back at home, Yoav and 
Anna made sure that the safety 
room was stocked with supplies 
like food, water and other pro-
visions, and spent the rest of 
the evening in their living room 
glued to the news for updates, 
at the ready to move the family 
into the mamad if necessary. 
“It was like a waiting game 
that kept us up all night,
” 
Raban said. “We didn’t know if 
Hezbollah or the Houthis were 
going to join in. We just sat 
anxiously watching the news, 
and then you heard the sirens, 
the jets taking off from the air 
force base and the boom of 
them intercepting the incoming 
missiles. It was all very surreal. 
The only thing you could do 
was to remain as calm as possi-
ble and hope and pray that this 
will not happen again.
” 
Stephanie Horwitz, who has 
lived in Tel Aviv for 11 years, 
said her parents, 
Arthur and Gina 
Horwitz, were vis-
iting from Detroit 
when Iran attacked. 
From two sep-
arate apartments, 
Stephanie kept in 
touch with her par-
ents over texts throughout the 
night, at the ready to enter their 
safe rooms if necessary. 
Horwitz said she heard sirens 
beginning at 1:30 and then the 
sounds of jet booms at around 
2:30. She usually sleeps with 
a white sound machine on, 
but that night she kept it off. 
During the “surreal” night, she 
barely slept. 
“That night, there were peo-
ple who went to sleep and there 
were people who never slept,
” 
Horwitz explained. “I hardly 
slept, but a lot of my friends 

said there was nothing they 
could do, so they went to sleep.
” 
Horwitz’s parents had a 
flight that was scheduled to 
leave that Sunday morning 
back to the United States. 
“
At one point of the evening, 
we really did not think their 
flight was going to make it 
out,” recalled Horwitz. “But 
surprises do happen and, the 
next morning, they made it to 
Ben Gurion and their flight 
took off.” 
Horwitz said there had been 
anticipation about a retaliatory 
attack from Iran and expected 
it as early as the previous week-
end. That weekend, Horwitz 
said life went on as usual. 
Horwitz and her husband, Itai, 
hosted an engagement party 
and spent time at the beach. 
And the morning after the 
attack, even with little to no 
sleep, she still managed to 
get up for a 9:30 yoga class 
and meet a work deadline. 
Still, there is a feeling of 
“helplessness” among she and 
other Israeli civilians about 
hundreds of missiles being 
sent from Iran, and that these 
attacks are detracting atten-
tion away from the hostage 
crisis in Gaza. 
“Friends back in the United 
States text us and ask us if we 
are hunkering down, but we are 
living our lives as best we can,
” 
Horwitz said. “The night of the 
attacks, it was just so surreal 
because unlike when the mis-
siles come in from Gaza, when 
you have minutes, here we had 
a few hours to prepare. 
“It feels we have not moved 
on yet from (the war in Gaza 
and our hostages have not come 
home) and now we have this 
new level of worry to contend 
with. But I think also Israelis 
felt reassured by the help and 
support of our allies above in 
the skies. It made Israelis, who 
are really feeling isolated, realize 
we do have countries who will 
defend and stand with us.
” 

Stephanie 
Horwitz

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