After Iran’s unprecedented direct attack, the mood of many Israelis does not match the bellicose language from hardliners

Noa Moshytz’s home in northern Israel doesn’t have a bomb shelter, so as warnings of an unprecedented Iranian attack mounted late on Saturday night, she took her six-month-old daughter Mayan and drove to her mother’s home in Jerusalem.

They got there just after midnight. Barely an hour later they were racing to the safe room, as sirens wailed and arcs of falling debris from intercepted ballistic missiles lit up the night sky over the city.

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