(Cornell Daily Sun) Benjamin Birnbaum - On a bus ride from Jerusalem to Haifa, I got a chance to speak to Tamir Davidovich, an Israeli bus driver, about one of Israel's most dangerous professions. I found the right man. "Last January," he began, "an Arab man boarded my bus carrying a watermelon in a paper bag - a popular bomb-smuggling tactic. I yelled 'Terrorist,' and a soldier on board rushed over and subdued him until the police came. Amazingly, the bomb didn't detonate." "You ask, how was I so sure he was a terrorist?" said Tamir. "Watermelons aren't in season in January!"
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