about those jets we saw

The jets we saw flying up the Jordan valley in my last blog have now become an everyday occurrence, with a slight difference. Now we can hear the rumblings of bombs exploding after they go past us. We assumed that these explosions were training exercises, as there is apparently a bombing range just up and over our position to the east in the Golan Heights.
When we are home we watch the good old national news with Peter Mansbridge almost every night, but here of course we are greatly out of touch with what is going on in the world as our access to tv is mostly limited to a couple of Hebrew language staitions. And of course we just don't have time...so we go along each day in our little archaeological corner of the world with nary a concern as to what is going on elsewhere.
Today that changed. Dr. Shuler took us aside as a group and told us in sketchy details that a couple of Israeli soldiers had been abducted in the north by Lebanon and we were to keep an extremely low profile for a while. I now needed to know what was going on, and tuned into cbc on the internet, to discover that Israel had invaded southern Lebanon, and was considering the kidnappings as an act of war between two sovereign nations. Oh boy...so I guess those jets we now see almost hourly aren't going on training missions.
We are going to Haifa tomorrow to stay until Monday morning when our plane leaves. Pray for our protection and the protection of all the dig team, and god-willing we will be fine. Dr. Schuler said the airport and checkstops will be at the highest alert possible, and so we may have some delays in getting around and leaving etc.
We have no idea how blessed we are to live in a peaceful country like Canada. Ive never been in a war zone before, but let me tell you that this is a long way from Leduc or Carstairs. One more day up the hill and our part is over. It's been great and we can hardly wait to get home and tell you all our stories.