But Yaakov felt worried and preferred to go. Follow live updates on war in Middle East He and his two younger sisters, Avigail and Sarah, headed out for the shelter beneath the local synagogue. Their parents stayed in the house. Three minutes later, the missile hit. "There was a tremendous explosion and an enormous blast wave," Biton remembers. "The ceiling fell in, the windows flew out, everything collapsed. It was a miracle we survived." The synagogue was destroyed and in flames.