Word: shemona
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...resignation speech before the Knesset. The modernistic chamber was filled to capacity as she trudged to the podium. The mood of the meeting was even more grim than expected: that morning, Palestinian guerrillas had sneaked across Israel's border from Lebanon to carry out a massacre at Qiryat Shemona in which 18 people were killed (see following story). The raid, Mrs. Meir said, "surpasses in its barbarity all that has gone before." She followed up an account of the assault with an explanation of her decision to resign. In a brief, stiff and somewhat bitter speech, she acknowledged...
Shortly after dawn one day last week, three Arab terrorists, dressed in khakis, blue windbreakers and gym shoes, crept into the sleeping Israeli village of Qiryat Shemona (pop. 17,000) near the Lebanese border. Armed with bazookas, grenades and submachine guns, they shot their way up to the top of a four-story apartment building, firing indiscriminately into one apartment after the other. As sirens sounded and townspeople scurried for shelter, Israeli troops rushed to the scene. When the shooting stopped four hours later, 18 Israeli men, women and children-as well as the three terrorists-lay dead. At least...
...Golan Heights, the Israelis managed to stop the Syrian forces with antitank guns and ditches. The area was the center of heavy dogfighting as Syrian planes penetrated Israeli airspace, strafing farm villages. Some of the dogfights could be watched clearly by residents of Kiryat Shemona in upper eastern Galilee. In one such clash, a formation of 21 Syrian MIGS was seen heading in the direction of Kiryat Shemona; then one plane fell to earth and shells littered the area...
...required to face in order to defeat the enemy. Battles in the skies over Kutamiya and Salhiya are no holiday gifts. But better that the battle for our future be fought there than at the fences of Nahal Oz and with the blood of the children of Kiryat Shemona...
...About Kutamiya? Dayan did not have to explain whom he meant by Egypt's "foreign advisers." Every Israeli by now is able to translate such a phrase into Russian. Similarly, Dayan's countrymen know of Nahal Oz, a fortified settlement on the Gaza Strip border; and Kiryat Shemona, a city on the Lebanon border where eight residents have been killed in recent months by Russian-made rockets fired by Arab guerrillas...