Here's one business that's thriving....

Yes, repairing homes in Sderot....

Maxim Ben-Zikri runs one of the few thriving businesses in the town of 24,000 people: His Alum Mondial window business specializes in fixing houses that have been damaged by rocket fire. "I have work all the time, but that doesn't make me happy," he says.

He used to fix windows in Jewish settlements in Gaza before Israel pulled out of the seaside strip that is home to 1.4 million Palestinians in 2005. Now that Gaza militants have taken over those former settlements and moved closer to Israel, he has his hands full repairing windows in Israeli border communities.

He and his son work on 15 houses a day, he says. They've been stocking up on glass "so people won't have to wait more than a few hours," he says, estimating that he has stockpiled four tons of glass and at least three tons of aluminum. On Tuesday, he had to pick up supplies from a vendor in another town who was too afraid to deliver.