Rabbi Zalman Gorelik, whose Chabad-Lubavitch center in downtown Be’er Sheva sits across the local headquarters of Magen David Adom, reports that the emergency service has reassigned dozens of its ambulances from all over the country to the desert locale.

With war in the Gaza Strip now stretching into its seventh day and Palestinian rockets falling all over southern Israel, paramedic crews are working over time.

“There’s no room for the ambulances,” says Gorelik, who has been counseling first responders and Israel Defense Force soldiers stationed nearby. “They’re even parking just outside our door.” …