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Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28873-2004Jul30.html
In Israel, a Vacation from Bombs
(Washington Post) John Ward Anderson- There have been no suicide bombings in Jerusalem in more than five months, a fact everyone knows but many are reluctant to boast about, afraid of jinxing their good fortune. The sense of greater security and lower risk, combined with an economic boomlet that many say is also largely the result of fewer attacks, has sparked a rebound not just in Jerusalem but across Israel. Like survivors cleaning up after a devastating storm, the people of Jerusalem are being swept up in a sense of revival and revitalization.