I arrived in Israel with plans to spend the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, with my daughter and son-in-law. Instead, we spent two nights in a bomb shelter. The first missile salvo was launched by Hezbollah from Lebanon. Then came nearly 200 ballistic missiles launched by Iran and aimed at Israel’s major cities and towns. On Monday, I had to shelter at the Ben Gurion airport as a Houthi missile hurtled toward Tel-Aviv. It was shot down. If not for the Arrow and Iron Dome defense systems and support from the U.S. Navy, thousands of Israelis would have been killed and wounded.
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