TEL AVIV - Mayor Bloomberg was schooled in life on Israel's front lines Sunday when he was whisked into a shelter to avoid being hit by incoming rockets. During a solidarity visit here, the mayor was touring a military building in Sderot, a town 2 miles from the Gaza Strip that has been hammered by Hamas-fired rockets, when a siren warned that a missile was 15 seconds from landing nearby. On loudspeakers, a woman shouted "Tzevah Adom" - Hebrew for "Code Red."
(Above) Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly stand on a rooftop in Tel Aviv on Sunday Jan. 4, in between interviews. Both expressed support for Israel in defending itself against Hamas.
Bloomberg's security brigade hustled him and his delegation, including Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly and Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-Queens), into the building's underground shelter.Afterward, the mayor downplayed the danger. "I was in the hands of professionals," he said following the scare. "The risks were to the people of Sderot who were on the ground," he added. "The rest of us don't run any kind of risk compared to them. These people live with this every day."
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