Over seventy five members of the Sharon Jewish community attended a Pro-Israel Rally on Wednesday evening, July 19. Standing near Starbucks, the Sharonites, wearing blue & white clothing, held banners showing unswerving support for Israel. Israeli & American flags were in proud display. Honking from passing cars indicated strong support. The spirited group of Israeli supporters included members of all seven synagogues in Sharon: Adath Sharon, Chabad, K’lall Yisroel, Etz Chayim, Temple Israel , Temple Sinai & Young Israel, as well as the unaffiliated. Also of interest, representatives from the Christian Zionists of America displayed a large banner of support. One attendee with a t-shirt "Liberal" said this war of self-defense by Israel is "the only war I have ever publicly supported."

The grassroots South Area Israel Action Team (SAIAT), organized the event which was originally intended to be a smaller vigil. Remarked the groups co-founder Andrew Warren: "We were really not expecting this kind of turnout. We came prepared with placards and tributes to all the Israeli (Jewish & Arab) victims of the Hezbollah and Hamas missles, but people really wanted to be much more vocal." Warren later indicated: "I think part of the motivation is the sense that most major media outlets are not telling the full story. We don't here anything about the devastation of Israeli's northern towns and their victims. Over a half-million (500,000) people have had to flee their homes and another half-million (500,000) are in bomb shelters. Since Israel left southern Lebanon (it’s buffer zone) in 2000, the U.N. has turned a blind-eye to the Hizbollah build up of 13,000 rockets and past firings on northern Israeli communities. People feel the Hizbollah attack and kidnapping of two Israel Defense Force (IDF) soldiers, from the Israeli side of the border (UN acknowledged), was the last straw. We are are now seeing the unfortunate results for the whole region ultimately from Hizbollah's utter rejection of the Jewish State." -- Shirley Miller Stein