News From Israel - July 21st

Dear Friends,

All of you precious friends who have written, or phoned from all over the world, America, England, Norway, Ireland, Italy, Holland, Switzerland, Germany, New Zealand and Australia, and even Ethiopia,Jewish friends and Christians, believers and non-believers, to all of you a big thanks and a big shalom from the land of no-shalom


As I start this letter, it is to the familiar sound of rockets falling around us, and /or artillery fire.

We have spent days cooped up in a down stairs room, not too safe, but safer than where I am sitting now at my computer in an upstairs room directly facing incoming Katyusha rockets, At least six have fallen in the last few moments.

Several people in the town have been killed and many houses damaged.This situation is the same in every town and village from the border to Haifa, and Haifa has again been hit by several barrages this morning, Nearly all the settlements and towns in the north are like ghost towns, with most of their inhabitants having fled south to safer, (till now) places. There are no banks, post offices and clinics are shut, the trains do not run, and we haven't seen a bus. Most shops are shut, though some supermarkets remain open for those who have stayed, many of whom are sleeping in underground, airless shelters, with little or nothing to do. Between the rocket attacks, and sometimes during, we watch the news on TV, and our hearts also go out to the folks in Lebanon, who are also basically suffering because of the Hezbollah, whose aim is to set up an Islamic State from shore to shore, so pray also for the Christian population of Lebanon, as wall as the Druze, and even the Moslems, who are so blinded with hate and desire to set up their Islamic Kingdom.

It is 11.27 am, and I must run as the police are advising every one to take shelter, I'll be back!

Well now, I am back and it is 12.45, and there is now fear that another soldier has been abducted from the centre of the country, and that there is at least one terrorist at loose in the centre, looking for a suitable target!

When we think it is quiet, we go to look for a supermarket, or visit friends who are also stuck in their homes for days without seeing anybody. Today we hope that two Moslem friends are coming, one a believer, and one (his cousin) on the way. They live not to far from us and ring daily to find out how we are doing! Also, many of our messianic believers and Jewish friends, as well as all our family are in touch with us everyday, sometimes several times a day, to make sure we are all right. It is like one big family caring for one another.

Forgive us if we do not write to you personally, I have maybe 150 letters on my screen, but this is just to inform you that we are grateful, that we are alive, and the Lord has called us here, and told us to be strong and work, for He is with us.And now the police are coming again, and the rockets are falling. Bye for now

God bless you all,

Albert and Ruth Nessim