“How will we know when it’s all clear so we can leave?” Tzipi asked.

“The all-clear siren sounds on just one note” her father explained. “It’s not like the up and down of the warning siren.”

“Some people left their radios on from before Shabbos” Benny said. “Why didn’t we do that?”

Tzipi shook her head. “That would be terrible! We couldn’t adjust the volume on Shabbos so we’d have to listen to secular music and talk shows in Hebrew all day just in case there might be an air raid.”