November 16, 2025 Israeli citizens have spent the past two years living with frightening siren alarms warning them, at all hours, to seek shelter from the 26,000 rockets fired from Gaza, Lebanon, Iran, and Yemen. These alarms have become part of daily life. So much so, many Israelis, trusting in the Iron Dome and similar defense systems, have recently begun ignoring the alarms and continued with their normal routines, thinking “nothing will happen to us anyway.” The focus of