(Times of Israel) Most students had already left the Lev Ladaat hesder yeshiva religious school in Sderot for the weekend, but three people were sitting down to study just before 9 p.m. on Thursday when a missile slammed into a wall just steps away, sending concrete and glass flying but leaving them unharmed. Eyewitnesses said had the rocket hit a few minutes earlier, when the main study hall was filled with students, or a few meters from where it did, it could have been a very different story. Moreover, there was no explosion from a warhead, which could have caused much larger devastation. A Chabad Lubavitch synagogue adjacent to the school was holding a weekly Bible study session at the time.
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