According to statements made earlier this week by IDF Deputy Chief of Staff Major-General Yair Golan, in the next was there will be thousands of rockets striking all over Israel. Golan addressed the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) event marking ten years since the Second Lebanon War. He explained in an authoritative tone that the next war with Lebanon will turn the entire homefront into the battlefront.
Golan told his audience that in the Second Lebanon War, 70 tons of warheads struck Israel and in the next round of warfare, we should expect at least four times this number. Golan is not panicked and feels the IDF will be able to address the challenge. In a somewhat more encouraging note he told the audience that of all the rockets fired, only 4% hit urban area and only 1% struck buildings.
Golan, who has spent his adult life serving the Jewish People in an array of tasks in the IDF explained the scenario from his limited perspective. However, for frum Jews hearing his statements, based on intelligence studies, it should signal the need for additional limud Torah, acts of chessed and placing an emphasis on getting along with one another; placing our own kovod aside for the good of the tzibur.
As Gedolei Yisrael Shlita are well-aware, much can be done to prevent the frightening scenario explained by Major-General Golan, and this rests heavily on the actions of Torah observant Jewry in many areas, including silence in shuls and shutting off phones and other gadgetry and focusing on communicating with HKBH.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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very small point: in the second line the word “was” is written instead of “war”. could someone in YWN please ensure grammer/spelling checks in the future-for your own good?
thank you