Sarah teaches new immigrants Hebrew at Ulpan Etzion. She has three children, and is a 7th generation Jerusalemite.

"I was 20 years old and 7 months pregnant at the time of the war. I was a supervisor at the post office. On the first day, I was at work, and suddenly they told us that it was on the news that at eight in the morning -- it was a Tuesday, I think -- that a war had began in the North. So we said, 'It's a war in the North, it's not here. We will continue to work as usual.' At 11 o'clock, we suddenly heard shooting. The manager said to everybody 'Quickly, quickly go home!' However, suddenly it wasn't just shooting, it was also bomb shells. If there are bomb shells, it's impossible to go home. Then it really started to rain down with bombs, as well as the shooting, and it was much too dangerous to go home."

"Everybody went down into the bomb shelter, but the manager said, 'What do we need a seven month pregnant women here for?' and he called for someone with a car. 'Quickly, quickly take her to her house.' It was dangerous to take me home, but he took me home. Not to my house, because I lived on Shmuel Hanavi, which was on the border, so he took me to my parents house in Givat Shaul."

"All the people at work stayed there for two days in the shelter. Only people who lived really close, or who were prepared to risk their lives went home. Most people stayed at work, it was too dangerous to be in the streets. I remained at my parents' house for the rest of the war because my house was in the war zone and I didn't have any children at the time."

"Until the end of the war I had never been to the Kotel. Before the war, every Tisha B'Av we used to go to Har Zion, and from there we'd look at the Kotel, you could see a little bit of the Kotel. I am from a religious family and it was our dream always to be at the Kotel. Two weeks after the war, I went to see it for myself. It was really hot, so I went at 2 o'clock in the morning, there were thousands of people there. When I first saw the Kotel I was very excited, because I had always been told that the Kotel, is something special."

"We went to the Old City, and it felt strange to be inside the middle of an Eastern city. We felt as though this was ours. Now when I go there, I don't feel as though it's ours, but then I felt as if it belonged to us. A little while later the government or the municipality, I don't know who, put up signs in Hebrew. It was really not scary at all, there was a feeling that now definitely there will be peace for a long time. We were sure that the Arabs would sit quietly, that they wouldn't want to start another war and nor would we, because we were very satisfied. For what would we want another war? It was the feeling that the Moshiach will be coming, there is peace, everything is wonderful. It is possible to be friends with the Arabs. There wasn't a feeling of hatred. I didn't feel any bad feeling it wasn't, 'Here is the Arab today, who only yesterday made a war against us.' No, I forgot about this quickly."