Word: nahariya
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Twenty seven years ago, Smadar Haran suffocated her two-year-old daughter. She was trying to quiet the whimpering child as the two of them hid in the family's attic while PLO terrorists searched for them in their apartment in the coastal Israeli town of Nahariya. The terrorists didn't find them but took Smadar's husband and their four-year-old daughter hostage. When the cell, retreating as security forces pursued them, found the rubber boat they'd arrived in disabled by gunfire, one of the members shot Smadar's husband Danny in the back and drowned...
Long accustomed to worrying about the danger to their children in the military, Israelis are now worried about the danger to their children in the schools. In fact, class outings have been suspended. One day recently, the mayor of the town of Nahariya shut down all its schools after a warning of an impending terrorist act. In a society characterized by its love of gatherings, even the youngest children know that crowds are to be avoided...
...Last weekend's violence highlights a sense of despair in Israel over the lack of effectiveness of the military tactics used thus far to end the Palestinian uprising - not least because the suicide bomber in the northern Israeli town of Nahariya appears to have been a local Israeli-Arab, rather than an infiltrator from the West Bank. Even though Israeli-Arab leaders rushed to condemn the attack, the idea that Palestinian Islamist groups such as Hamas have support networks among the 1 million of their brethren that live inside Israel-proper is a sobering one for Israel's security establishment...