Dinner was wrapping up (the first time in a week that I ate more than a few bites) when sirens. We hurried with Yoav’s 930year-old aunt, Zivia, out of her apartment and joined the rest of the building’s residents heading for the fortified stairwell. Zivia fought in the Palmach (elite strike force) doing the War of Independence (1947-1949) and is admirably tough.