Bomb shelters! Each Israeli residential homes is required to be equipped with a bomb shelter by the law enacted in 1951. Sharing one by sevel homes is also OK, I heard. Our house's shelter is right here next to the kitchen. It is a pantry, that doubles as a shelter.

If a siren goes off for a possible missile attack, we shall run into this space. The walls are all metal and so is the door.

So if we are home, we go to the home shelter, but what if we are outside, like taking a walk? I heard there are community shelters around, but nobody knows exactly where they are. "We rarely experience sirens first of all, and even if there is an attack, we have the powerful Iron Dome which chases the missiles and let them explode in the air preventing from their reaching the land, so we are safe." is the general summary what people say.

14% of the missiles shot from Gaza by Hamas are failures simply dropping in Gaza, 90% of the ones that enter the land of Israel is prevented by Iron Dome, and the remaining is off to the wilderness never affecting the inhabited area. This is the logic behind people feeling pretty safe. Rare but still possible, however, is that some missiles reach residential areas and kill ordinary people. Probably it can be compared to the probability you encounter an active shooter in school or mall in America. You know the risk but try to be blind to it to live the daily life.