[AFP/Yahoo] Michael Blum - Hundreds of residents in northern Israel have fled Hizballah rocket salvos for the relative safety of Jewish settlements in the West Bank. "We have more security here, so it was suggested to those in the north that they come and stay with us until the end of the war," said Hanna Metzger, assistant to the mayor of Efrat. At the Neveh Shmuel Yeshiva in Efrat, 280 people have been put up in rooms normally occupied by students who are now on holiday.
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