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Fighting rages around Gaza's hospitals as civilians flee for safety

Israeli tanks, explosions and artillery blasts surrounded Gaza City’s overcrowded hospitals Friday, targeting facilities that Israeli forces say double as Hamas strongholds even as the advance forced thousands more civilians to make dangerous journeys through battle zones. ....

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Tel Aviv was long known as 'the Bubble' for its distance from war. This time is different.


Tel Aviv was long known as ‘the Bubble’ for its distance from war. This time is different.
Shira Rubin
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Children gather at the Gimpel Garden playground, which has a public shelter nearby, in Tel Aviv on Wednesday.
TEL AVIV When Hamas rockets first targeted this city one evening last week, Nadav Cohen, owner of the bar-bistro El Vecino, hustled his full house of patrons to the underground wine cellar-cum-shelter, where they huddled low to the floor, clutching their drinks.
He opened a bottle of vodka and another of licorice-flavored arak liquor, making their “own little party,” he said, as the group listened for the “booms” of the Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system. They watched videos on social media of white lines streaking across the night sky and real-time maps showing where the rockets had struck. ....

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Package-tour diplomacy: Thousands of Israeli tourists flock to Dubai after peace deal


Package-tour diplomacy: Thousands of Israeli tourists flock to Dubai after peace deal
Steve Hendrix
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People pose for a picture as they celebrate Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights, in Dubai on Dec. 10.
DUBAI Ashish Negi prides himself on spotting the nationality of tourists as soon as they walk into his jewelry store so he can be jokey with Americans, chatty with Brits and ready to bargain with Russians but he was baffled by the man in the tall black hat and the curly sideburns who came in last week.
“This was something I had not seen in Dubai,” Negi said of the first ultra-Orthodox Jewish visitor to reach his corner of the city’s traditional gold market, part of a wave of Israeli tourists who have descended on the United Arab Emirates in recent days. “It is very good to have new customers to learn about.” ....

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