Word: haifa
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...Spain--conquered by Islam in the 8th century, lost to Christianity in 1492. That's a long way from Haifa, from Lebanon, from Baghdad and even from Mecca. It's an even longer way from rationality, which is why the struggle against it will be long and painful, and enduringly surreal...
...Students from Haifa have been arriving on campus in waves this week as Hezbollah rockets continue to destroy homes and kill civilians there. One student told me she was awakened one recent morning by a Katyusha rocket. She and her friends, following directions broadcasted over loudspeakers, quickly moved into the bomb shelter in their dormitory. After 50 hours they emerged, packed up their belongings, and drove south...
Susan E. Maya ’08, a biochemistry concentrator, was enrolled in two programs at the University of Haifa when the conflict began. When rockets began to fall on Haifa, she was returning from a weekend out of the city...
When the University of Haifa moved all of its students to Jerusalem, Maya said she decided to leave the country, and has since returned home to Boston...
...When the rockets hit Haifa, I was working at the Tel Dor excavation just south of Haifa. Everyone was totally shocked, because no one believed that anything could happen to Haifa,” she wrote in an e-mail...