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May 2, 2008 | 3:24 pm
The Siren
Posted by Dikla Kadosh
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I left Israel when I was six years old. There are only a fistful of fuzzy memories that remain from my childhood in Kfar Saba.
But recently, a vivid memory floated to the surface of my mind:
The sorrowful wailing of a siren sounding throughout Israel at the very same moment.
For two minutes on Yom Hashaoh, everything in Israel stops: cars on the highway come to a halt, cell phones are shut off, conversations are quieted, children in schoolyards stop playing.
The entire country stands in unified grief, in memory of all those that perished in the Holocaust.
Even as a young child, I understood the significance of that siren. I felt the weight of Jewish suffering on my shoulders and I hadn’t even learned about World War II yet. My heart swelled with sorrow, but I didn’t realize who or what I was mourning.
The memory of that moment still causes my eyes to water and my throat to go dry.
The notes to a Jewlicious video of the siren described it eloquently: “It’s a touching and poignant moment in a country known more for its boisterousness than for its introspection.”
Here is that video:
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This is *not* a video of the siren on Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Memorial Day); it is the siren on Yom HaZikaron (Israel’s War Fallen Memorial Day). The siren on the morning of Yom HaShoah is only one minute long; the siren on the morning of Yom HaZikaron (the one in the video) is two minutes long.
I have read conflicting information from various sources, however, most of them do say that on Yom HaShoah a two-minute siren is sounded. Also, this video was actually shot on May 1, 2008, Yom Hashoah, so how can you really dispute that it’s a video of the Yom HaShoah siren?
someone forced an entry onto my peprorty at night and broke a locking device on my gate, coming onto the road leading up to my house. I suspect this time I got lucky as they came 1,200 feet up to my house and were scared off by my dogs. I purchased two Eyewatch Outdoor Solar Security Alarms and installed them about 300 feet down the road leading too my house. I tested them during the night and found that they do not produce a false alarm, they DO detect movement of a human and a vehicle and don’t seem to trigger if a small tumble weed blows past their area. The two blue flashing LEDs and a voice go off when the device is triggered. The lights and the voice got my attention each time I performed the test, and although the voice is not loud (I would have liked it to be heard half-way around the county) it is loud enough to probably make a crook believe the Eyewatch Alarm might be coupled to another device alerting me inside my home. Plus, the voice and the whailing alarm are loud enough to alert my dogs and start a chain-reaction to add discouragement to a would-be thief. Prior to purchasing two of these, I read the reviews here on Amazon. One person complained the Eyewatch Alarm was too small. For me, I think the size is perfect. It’s small, but so is a Chihuahua. I’d rather it be small so that a crook NOT see it and bypass it. And if they were larger, they would be noticeable and unsightly. They might be small, but they have a Bull Dog attitude. I was so impressed with my first two, I bought two more to place around my farm for a total of four. They really spook my dogs and I trust they will spook a crook, especially when my dogs start barking at the electronic voice coming form the Eyewatch Alarms. (The dogs freak-out when the high shrill alarm triggers and I believe the dogs can hear these devices from 600 feet away.) TWO PROBLEMS WITH THIS UNIT #1. There are two buttons on the bottom for turning the unit on or off and for selecting lights only, or lights and voice/alarm sound. It is IMPOSSIBLE to know when pressing these buttons, if they are in the on or off mode. You can only determine if the unit is on at night, and walking past the alarm then determining if the sound function is on . #2. Out of the 4 units I own, two of them have had the rubber, weather-proof shields that protect the electrical contacts of the buttons COME OFF. The rubber is easy to replace, but they are terrible in the fact that they come off so easily. If they do, and it rains while these EyeWatch alarms are outside, they will probably be ruined. I would have given this a 5 star rating, however the voice is a tad weak (but what can I expect from a Chihuahua?) and I’d like to have the option of two or three messages, such as 9-1-1 has been called and law enforcement has been notified of your presence. And another maybe saying, You have triggered an electronic security system and the home-owner has been alerted. Maybe a Lock and load, hasta-la-vista baby in Arnold Schwarzenegger’s voice, followed by Clint Eastwood saying Go ahead, make my day with the sound effect of a pump shotgun being loaded would be cool, for old Army war vets like me