Damn! There goes $250,000 in two minutes.

Boom.

So about ten minutes ago we heard the usual "Tseva Adom" (code red) alarm loudspeaker and we rushed into our bomb shelter, like usual at least 20 times in the last few days.

This time, though, instead of the typical two overhead booms, I think we heard five, in two minutes.

BOOM!     BOOM!     BOOM!     BOOM!     BOOM!

I am most grateful that --I think--the booms had the sound of the Iron Dome when it shoots down incoming rockets. But each Iron Dome rocket costs, it is said, around $50,000. Do the math and that comes to a cool $250K in two minutes.

Soon we will hear on the news if I heard the booms correctly.

We are gaining keen hearing for the types of booms we can hear from the apartment. There is the worst boom of a rocket crashing into a street or house nearby. It sounds heavy and brutal. Then there is the overhead higher popping boom of the shoot-down from Iron Dome. Then, coming across the border from Gaza, I suppose you could classify two basic kinds of booms...the smaller ones hitting individual terror targets, and the huge ones that reverberate, sometimes rattling the windows here, as the bombs knock down buildings.

I cannot understand the minds of the islamist men who are so determined to bring explosive destruction on everyone who stands in their way. There is something so infantile about it.