The first time Diklah Cohen boarded a bus in Madison, her eyes involuntarily began darting about, seeking the exit, looking for the spot where she’d be best buffered from a bomb blast.
“I started looking around. And then I thought, ‘You don’t need to do that,'” said Cohen, who grew up in Israel, in an interview last week. She recalled that once in Madison, someone forgot a bag on the bus, and she started panicking. But it was just a bag.