Go South, Young Lady

July 24, 2006 - 7:50 AM by Allison

Carmia of Kishkushim, yesterday’s faithful chronicler of rocket attacks in Haifa, decided that she’d had enough and has moved south to Tel Aviv last night.

More Haifans head south,including myself. Some friends of mine drove back up from Tel Aviv to Haifa to check on their apartment and pack more things and offered to take me back to Tel Aviv with them. After a lot of internal and external debate, I accepted the offer. It was a very difficult decision to make but I received a lot of encouragement from my boyfriend and my roommate. There were many reasons why, despite the daily and constant rocket attacks, it was difficult for me to leave. I packed with a heavy heart. My boyfriend remains in the north and I’m not sure when we will see each other again. I don’t know when I will be back at home. Paranoid thoughts also run across my mind, like worrying about my roommate and wondering if my apartment will still be standing when I come back.

Anyone who has been reading her blog can’t really blame her. It had to be impossible to be stuck in an apartment without a secure room, huddled in a hallway with a laptop, with insufficient warning of incoming rockets to get to a municipal shelter without being exposed and in danger on the road.

We’ll miss her reports, but we’re glad she’s safe.

Yonatan Bert, another Haifa area blogger, also wrestled with the decision to leave, but is now in Holland visiting his family.

While I had my doubts about leaving our house and accepting the invitation of my parents, there were at least two moments that confirmed that we made the right choice: one I saw the look in our children’s eyes when they were able to play outside again in the garden near my brother-in-law’s house in Binyamina ( Wednesday, on our way to Tel Aviv ), and the other this morning when we received a telephone from my parents-in-law who told us that one or more rockets fell in Nesher, four or five streets from our house.

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