by Michael Freund, Jerusalem Post
What a difference a few minutes can make.
That thought must surely be running through the minds of dozens of parents and teenagers at the HaNativ HaYeshivati high school in Sderot, after a Palestinian Kassam rocket slammed through the roof of a classroom there this past Sunday.
The day had started like any other, with students attending morning prayers in an adjacent synagogue and then staying behind to hear their teacher deliver a schmooze – a brief discourse on a Torah-related subject.
The classroom was still locked, and some of the students had begun gathering at the door, where they were waiting for their teacher to bring the key. Suddenly, a loud explosion shook the building, as the uninvited projectile punched its way through the ceiling and detonated inside.
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