A rocket siren sounded in the Golan Heights shortly before noon Wednesday, sending Israeli media into a panic while Golan residents continued their lives normally, except those towns were the siren specifically went off.
No rocket or missile fell in Israel.
Golan resident “Alex” told Reshet Bet (Voice of Israel):
I don’t know what you are talking about. We did not receive any order from the IDF to stop working.
The IDF is checking to discover why the rocket siren sounded.
It must be a slow news week for Israel’s establishment media, looking for a way to frighten citizens.
Yesterday, the IDF declared a tiny part of northeast Golan Heights to be a “closed military zone” because of the fierce fighting across the border.
The closure might have been related to a planned Druze protest against the murder of their brethren in Syria.
Two hours later, after the media – not The Jewish Press, by the way – ran screaming headlines, anticipating all-out war between the IDF and the Islamic State (ISIS), or Hezbollah, or Assad’s army, or perhaps Al Qaeda.
Rockets from Syria have exploded on the Israeli side of the Golan too many times. We have no intention of belittling the fragile quiet on the Israeli side of the border, but let’s keep it in proportion.
