Rising From Ashes to Hope: Israel’s Dark Anniversary

Over recent decades, official visitors to Israel felt obligated to make a pilgrimage to Sderot, near Gaza, to view the rusting heaps of Hamas rockets displayed behind the town’s police station. Even presidential candidate Barack Obama stood there in 2008, insisting he would never tolerate his daughters living under the constant rocket threat faced by Israelis in the western Negev. Today, that police station no longer exists. Hamas terrorists overran it during their mass invasion last Oct. 7.