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To the Rescue...of the Rescuers

(Jerusalem Post) Ruth Eglash - Former police spokesman Gil Kleiman recalls with clarity the day he realized he'd witnessed one too many suicide bombings. "I just started crying in my office," he says. "I picked up the phone to call the police psychologist, but I could not speak in a coherent sentence." It was exactly one week after the suicide bombing at the Stage nightclub in Tel Aviv in February 2005, the 47th suicide bombing Kleiman had witnessed in less than four years as Israel Police liaison for the foreign media. "I've seen hundreds of dead bodies," says New York native Kleiman, 48, who moved to Israel in the early 1980s. Now retired from the force, Kleiman spends some of his spare time volunteering at the Israel Center for the Treatment of Psychotrauma, trying to reach others who are in similar need of Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome counseling. He continues: "The inner circle of bomb technicians and forensic experts - those who have to take off their shoes after a bombing before they enter their house - are the ones who need the most help."
2006-04-07 00:00:00
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