From the UK Telegraph
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Crawling Porsches and the prayerful join Lebanon's opulent exodus
By Tim Butcher in Beirut
(Filed: 15/07/2006)
It was perhaps the most elegant exodus in history. Thousands of wealthy, well-dressed Arabs snarled the mountain roads leading to Syria with their Range Rovers and Porsches as they fled Lebanon yesterday.
There were women with expensive coiffures, husbands wearing designer sunglasses and teenagers playing the latest hand-held video games as Lebanon morphed from Arab world summer playground to ghostland.
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Jul. 15, 2006 20:20 | Updated Jul. 16, 2006 0:46
Martial law declared in the North
By YAAKOV KATZ AND AMIR MIZROCH
Israel's war with Hizbullah intensified over the weekend as Katyusha rockets rained down on northern Israel, prompting the IDF to deploy Patriot missile batteries outside Haifa and Defense Minister Amir Peretz to declare martial law throughout the North.
Meanwhile. a Katyusha rocket warning system is due to be activated in southern Haifa on Sunday, Home Front Commander Yitzhak Gershon said on Saturday night.
The system will sound the alarm a minute before the rockets hit the ground in order for residents to seek shelter.
Residents who had previously been asked not to leave their houses are requested to stay in the vicinity of shelters despite the introduction of the warning system.
On Saturday, two barrages of Katyushas landed for the first time in Tiberias, the deepest the rockets have landed in Israel since the fighting erupted last Wednesday.
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