Filled glasses, long gowns and elegant hors d’oeuvres were abound on March 17, at Chateau Luxe in North Phoenix. This is not an unusual site for this event venue, but
It was 5am when Rob Rinder touched down in Tel Aviv. The airport, usually bustling with life, was eerily quiet – “a ghost town”. He headed towards Sderot, a city by the Gazan border, just an hour away. “The massacre was so close to everyone in Israel – not just emotionally, but physically, too,” he says.