Life in Tel Aviv Amid Strikes

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00:00I gather you have just emerged from a bomb shelter there in Tel Aviv.

00:05I wonder if you could tell us what happened and what the mood is there in Tel Aviv right now.

00:12Well, what happened is that there was another barrage of eight missiles launched by the Iranians

00:19from Iran to Israeli civilian targets.

00:25And naturally, several of them were aimed to target the Tel Aviv area.

00:36Luckily, this particular one, the barrage, was not very damaging.

00:42Nobody was killed.

00:43Also, the physical damage was not too bad.

00:47But this whole situation, of course, is quite dire.

00:50And, you know, for civilian people to be disrupted in such a manner for the last five days,

01:00mostly during the night, which is bad enough, but also during the day, as was the case twice already today,

01:07it's quite unpleasant, quite challenging, especially for older people and for children.

01:13But this is something that we accept.

01:17I think the overall morale in Israel is relatively high.

01:21We understand the situation.

01:23It's part of the unique situation with the Iranians.

01:27This is not the first time that we've been engaged in such a military challenge.

01:34We, the civilian population, and we know how to conduct our defense,

01:40and we know how to attend the situation and how to respond to that.

01:45And that is, of course, together with the military capacity,

01:50also the defensive military capacity of Israel,

01:53that manages to intercept something like 90 percent of the missiles and drones

02:01that are being launched against Israel,

02:04which, of course, helps a lot to know that we are in good hands,

02:07and we hope for the better.