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Filipina Caregiver Shelters Amid Escalating Israeli Air-Raid Alerts

3/3/2026

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Charlot David, a Filipina caregiver living in Rehovot, Israel since 2008, sheltered in a bomb shelter after multiple air-raid alerts.
The 44-year-old mother of four has endured several wars and described the urgency of reaching the shelter from her home in Rehovot, 20 km south of Tel Aviv.
She is among 2 million overseas Filipino workers in the region who send remittances to the Philippines, and attributes the alerts to threats from Iran.

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Charlot David, a Filipina caregiver living in Rehovot, Israel since 2008, sheltered in a bomb shelter after multiple air-raid alerts.
The 44-year-old mother of four has endured several wars and described the urgency of reaching the shelter from her home in Rehovot, 20 km south of Tel Aviv.
She is among 2 million overseas Filipino workers in the region who send remittances to the Philippines, and attributes the alerts to threats from Iran.