As the rocket fire from Gaza continued on Tuesday, Ashkelon, the city that was hardest hit, suffered a consistent barrage of rocket attacks. The IDF’s Homefront command ordered Ashkelon residents to stay indoors.

Rabbi Moshe Weitzman, the director of the religious-zionist yeshiva (seminary) Tzvia in Ashkelon, which suffered a direct hit from the rockets described to Walla the harrowing moments leading up to his seminary’s attack “these are difficult times, a direct hit, there is damage to the building, there were no students in the yeshiva and no faculty. On a regular day, there would be 450 students and people inside the Yeshiva.”

Rabbi Weitzman continued: “We’re talking about a miracle that came about from wisdom. The state of Israel knows how to prepare and to our sorrow, we are used to these types of scenarios. We teach our kids to be better and full of faith. With that, we don’t falter. We will move onward and upward. We will not stop because of rockets. We finished Jerusalem Day and we get our strength from Jerusalem.”