{"id":203158,"date":"2026-03-04T02:27:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T02:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/203158\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T02:27:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T02:27:34","slug":"bakersfield-rabbi-gives-insight-on-what-daily-life-in-israel-is-like-with-ongoing-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/203158\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakersfield Rabbi gives insight on what daily life in Israel is like with ongoing war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif (KBAK\/KBFX) Sirens echoed across Jerusalem on Tuesday as people rushed to shelter, including near the Western Wall, where Jewish people continued praying as the alarms rang out. <\/p>\n<p>In the Old City of East Jerusalem, intercepted Iranian missiles could be heard over the Al-Aqsa Mosque.<\/p>\n<p>In Bakersfield, locals shared their views on the ongoing war.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bakersfield Rabbi gives insight on what daily life in Israel is like with ongoing war{ }(Photo by Majid Saeedi\/Getty Images)\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/52568a4b-c873-417d-b10f-a12737c53c62-GettyImages2264176199.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Bakersfield Rabbi gives insight on what daily life in Israel is like with ongoing war{ }(Photo by Majid Saeedi\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy thoughts are its justified. I\u2019m glad they\u2019re moving in there and taking care of that guy. He\u2019s killed many Americans. I think it\u2019s totally justified, and I think the world will be a better place after it,\u201d said Martin Downs, a Bakersfield local.<\/p>\n<p>Another Bakersfield resident said, \u201cBut like I said you got to stop them because if you don\u2019t, they\u2019ll just go from country to country to try and take over.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At Temple Beth El in Bakersfield, Rabbi Jonathan Klein, the synagogue\u2019s spiritual leader, described what he said Israelis are experiencing amid the war.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSituation in Israel is a combination of, scared, and a sense of we\u2019re in this now,\u201d Klein said.<\/p>\n<p>He said many Israelis are taking shelter to escape Iranian missiles.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bakersfield Rabbi gives insight on what daily life in Israel is like with ongoing war (KBAK\/KBFX)\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/c62db7cc-d4ec-49ba-bb5d-faf244c35c91-tbe.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Bakersfield Rabbi gives insight on what daily life in Israel is like with ongoing war (KBAK\/KBFX)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople are spending a lot of time in their bomb shelters. The whole country is filled with bomb shelters as it is. So, this is not their first time in this situation,\u201d Klein said.<\/p>\n<p>Klein said members of the Jewish community in America, including in Bakersfield, are experiencing the war in different ways.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bakersfield Rabbi gives insight on what daily life in Israel is like with ongoing war. (AP Photo\/Mohsen Ganji)\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/47f047eb-afc8-4b01-9f05-330c2bab91b3-AP26061467958092.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Bakersfield Rabbi gives insight on what daily life in Israel is like with ongoing war. (AP Photo\/Mohsen Ganji)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s some of us who are more focused on American policy and others of us are more focused on what\u2019s happening on the ground for Israelis themselves,\u201d Klein said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif (KBAK\/KBFX) Sirens echoed across Jerusalem on Tuesday as people rushed to shelter, including near the Western&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-203158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}