Besieged Residents of Northern Israel Hunker Down

[Los Angeles Times] Ken Ellingwood - For the last two weeks, Ludwilla Kuperstock, a 67-year-old grandmother, and her husband have spent their days and nights underground, sharing a three-room bomb shelter with other residents of the northern Israeli town of Kiryat Shmona. As more families have left the shelter for safer territory farther south, all that remains is a hardy group of Russian emigres bent on outlasting the barrages of Hizballah-fired Katyusha rockets that have picked up in recent days.


2006-07-27 01:00:00

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