In January 1991, Israeli society encountered one of the most peculiar moments in its history. A chain of events that had begun with the invasion of Iraqi military forces into Kuwait led to an American attack on Iraq, which was followed by the launching of thirty-nine Iraqi Scud missiles against Israel. In just three weeks, the Israeli chapter of the war had ended. In Israeli memory, the war remained as a bizarre, paradoxical experience, in which nostalgia, repression, horror, and entertainment were intermingled. The Gulf War was a new kind of war for the Israelis, almost entirely different from anything they had previously known. It was the first war in which the home front—the sealed room—served as the battlefield. As historian and journalist Tom Segev has described it, “Never before had so many Israelis shared so Jewish of an experience” (Segev 2000: 507).