Motorcade Day

We live between the Prime Minister's house and the governmental offices for the country. Every morning and evening we hear the sirens of the Prime Minister's motorcade as he goes to work and as he heads home. Since all the latest military activity here in Israel, there have been more motorcades of additional officials zooming throughout the city.

Today, however, since the latest activity in Israel's north, it's been nonstop motorcades and sirens throughout the day. While we were at the supermarket earlier today during our Hebrew class break, we were able to identify (thanks to the easy flag) a motorcade of Japanese officials headed somewhere. Hopefully it wasn't to Tel Aviv and to the airport to flee!

We just read in the news that Prime Minister Olmert will be holding an emergency cabinet meeting in just over two hours. We expect additional sirens to ensue between now and then.

Anyway, despite all the news about military action, we don't perceive any risk here in Jerusalem at this time and things seem pretty normal for now. Or, as normal as things can be in a country without a single mop!

UPDATE: I just found out that the Prime Minister of Japan was in town, so they weren't heading out of town... Everything's still quiet, but then again, we don't have a TV! :)