(Washington Post)Molly Moore- In the space of a few horrific minutes Thursday night at the Taba Hilton, a woman fell eight stories in a bathtub. The charred and twisted skeleton of a car flew from the front driveway into a banquet hall. Every window in the hotel blew out. Everything is black and smells of acrid, burned metal. At the front of the hotel, guest rooms had plunged into the lobby. Three receptionists died there. So did the secretary, the tourist policeman, the hotel security officer, and the rental car man. A month ago, the same hotel provided me and my family with an escape from the daily fears of living in Israel.
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