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...casualties have been minimal so far, with three people injured in the latest attacks. But the threat of rockets from Gaza is unlikely to abate anytime soon, and locals complain that the government has abandoned them. "People in Tel Aviv can sleep at night but we don?t have this option," said Limor Aflalo, a 35-year-old beautician whose home was damaged by a rocket that struck next door. Aflalo and her husband would like to take their two daughters and leave the town, but they said it would be impossible to sell their home. "I don?t know...
Teri Elmaleh, TEL AVIV...
...Recorded in Paris, Avignon, New York, Los Angeles, Reykjavik and Tel Aviv, its scattered geography was a strong influence on the album, which builds on the eclectic styles of her previous work with fuzzy guitars, trumpets, harmonicas, cellos and a few handclaps. The choirs heard on several tracks were born of several days in Reykjavik writing for an Icelandic choir. She sweetly sings, like she does on all her albums, about intimacy, heartache and the lives of couples, both strong and weak. She says that the songs themselves, all in English, couldn't have been sung in any other language...
Looking out at the 120,000 demonstrators gathered in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Israeli democracy appears to be alive and kicking. The protest was sparked by last Monday's report by the official Winograd Commission that was scathing in its critique of Olmert's disastrous leadership during last summer's war against Hizballah, which cost the lives of more than 150 Israelis. Even Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah - presumably in a bunker somewhere in Beirut - expressed his admiration for the Israeli government. "They study their defeat in order to learn from...
...Japan, leaders would have committed hari-kari in such circumstances," said Yossi Offer, a volunteer with the Movement for Quality Government in Israel, an civil society group supporting the protest in Tel Aviv. "Our leaders our putting their interests before the public interest...