Iran Missile Attack: A Night of Miracles

I really don’t think we all understand the absolute miracles we witnessed here in Israel last week.

In fact, I’m sure we don’t.

Let’s break this down.

Israel has three air defense systems, each a technological marvel, and I’m not saying that. This is Dr. Daniel Gold, who basically invented the Iron Dome and who told me this. The level and sophistication of the Iron Dome is simply unparalleled.

But the Iron Dome can only fire short-range missiles or missiles within 70 km, more or less.

Then Israel has the David’s Sling system. That knows how to deal with medium-range missiles up to about 300 km.

Then we have the Arrow system, which fires rockets that can fly outside Earth’s atmosphere. This has a range of approximately 2,400 km!

On the night Iran fired 180 ballistic missiles at Israel, all three defense systems were activated and implemented perfectly.

The chances of all of these incredibly complex systems working together as flawlessly as they did that night are slim.

If something went wrong, if one of these ballistic missiles hit a residential building, a shopping center or a military base, we would be burying hundreds of Israelis right now.

And all of this isn’t even the greatest miracle.

A few days ago I received a WhatsApp message from a good friend who is an executive at Microsoft and wasn’t exactly a God-fearing Jew. Until the night of the rocket attack.

This is what he wrote to me:

“If you’re looking for miracles, man – last night I started believing. Rockets fell all around me, but none of them hit my house or any other house.”

Elaborating further, he shared information about the rockets that he observed landing, to say the least, just a few meters from very strategic locations in Israel.

Each of these defense systems is a miracle in itself, but what is even crazier are the low casualties caused by the rockets and missiles that were NOT intercepted.

Where did these rockets go? I’ll tell you where. They ended up in sand, water and “empty spaces”.

Have you ever been to Israel? It is a microscopic country. Which blank spaces? Where are these empty rooms?

How can hundreds of Iranian ballistic missiles be detonated by miraculous systems or completely miss their target and land in empty spaces without inflicting casualties and minimal damage?

How?

Listen, I understand. This thought process begs the question: Where was God during the horrific terrorist attack in Jaffa? Where was he on October 7th? Where was he during the Holocaust?

All legitimate questions that require a serious, nuanced conversation.

But if you know anything about what had to happen the night that Iran attacked Israel, and during the war in general with such a small number of casualties, you know that what we saw last night is that The equivalent was that God split the sea.

Guess what, when God split the sea, there were some who didn’t believe it was a miracle and didn’t jump in. And there are also those who felt the need to explain it in a natural way. Ok, that’s fine.

You don’t want to call yesterday a force majeure? That’s your decision, but if, like my Microsoft friend, you look at these events objectively, you’ll find it really hard to see these hundreds of deadly missiles landing in empty spaces without seeing the hand of God.

This rocket attack was an incredible example of cooperation between two powers that protect the Jewish people: the IDF and God.

This night, like many of Israel’s achievements in this war, including the bleeps and the unprecedentedly low combatant-to-civilian ratio, will go down in history as a military operation the likes of which the world has never seen. Always!

This night has been analyzed by military strategists and experts for generations.

That night we witnessed history.

That night we witnessed open miracles.

That night we saw God watching over His children.