A number of people, including staff members in Israel and people living in the Upper Galil, have written to us describing what life was like during the crisis. We share these stories below.

• Updates from our staff in northern Israel
• "Thank you all for bringing hope and a little bit of peace to all of us": messages from Israel
• Our relationship to Israel’s north—the Upper Galil

Hallie Baron

• “Our activities have been inspiring, thought provoking and stirred emotion in all of us. ”

Ola and Alex Joffe

• “Letting them know that we in the San Francisco Bay Area are with the people of Israel in our minds and our hearts”

Gila Noam

• “What will happen on ‘the day after?’”: Travel to the Upper Galil
• “Everyone opening up their homes and hearts”

Orna Rayn

• “The road will be very long”
• “I know why I stay”

Caron Tabb

• “‘I just want to hear the boring news on the radio about a stupid car chase’”
• “Do they show this on CNN and NBC?”
• “‘Normalcy’ has taken on an extremely different meaning these days”