Anyone who has been to Israel knows the term “Hefetz Hashud.” This is the code-word for a suspicious looking package in a public area that could be a bomb.
This morning, I walked out of the house to see my neighbor making a u-turn in my driveway.
I gave her a puzzled look.
She pointed to the middle school across the street (about 80 meters from my front door). It was surrounded by police cars, a “Bomb Truck” and men in vests. “There’s a Hefetz Hashud at the school.”
It's since been cleared and it was nothing as far as we can tell. Still, a sad commentary on the world we live in.