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ERIC SILVER

Israel Correspondent

W

hen's our luck going to
run out?" my wife asked
after the triple suicide
bombing in Jerusalem's
Ben-Yehuda shopping street. "They're
getting nearer every time." It was one
of those days when people phone
round to count their friends.
We live downtown. In March,
1996, one of the number 18 bus
bombings took place barely quarter of
a mile from us. This summer, on July
30, two bombs went off in the
Mahane Yehuda market, a short walk
away, where we do our.weekend shop-
ping. My wife's fish man, Nissim, has

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from a hospital bed on Prime Minister;
Binyamin Netanyahu's mobile phone.
By next morning city workers had
scrubbed the pavement. Most of the -
shattered shop windows had been
replaced. Cafe Atara had a new stock
of chairs and tables. The crowds start-
ed coming back. It was a brave show
of business as usual.
But it was a show. No one is run-
ning away. The bombers, we tell each
other, will not dictate how we lead our
lives. Yet we do feel less safe. We are
savy enough in such things to recog-
nize that all the police in the world
cannot guarantee that the Hamas
kamikaze boys won't get through
again.
Israelis are worried by the bomb-
ings, but they are not in despair. They
know that the security forces can
reduce the risks. They also know that
the job has been made harder by the
army's evacuation of major Palestinian
population centers, whether they liked,
or disliked the 1993 Oslo accords that

still not reopened. His arm was
smashed. He's only just come out of
hospital.
The Ben-Yehuda Street explosions
were so close, perhaps 300 yards, that
they shook the pictures on our walls.
Yehudit, the manager of our favorite
coffee house, Cafe Atara, was talking
to a couple with a baby at an outside
table when the first blast hit them.
Her leg was wounded, the baby and
mother were burned.
Another friend, Natan, who runs
an exchange bureau, saw it all
from his office just off Ben-Yehuda
and was the first to help Abe
Mendelson, the wounded Los
Angeles student who called his father

Soldiers, demolition experts and police
survey the damage at the pedestrian
mall following the triple explosions.

brought it about.
What, then, can Israel do to fight
the terror? I turned to Gideon Ezra fo
a professional answer. Ezra, now one
of Netanyahu's Likud legislators, is a
former deputy chief of the Shin Bet
internal security service.
The key, he said, was intelligence.
"You have to collect information.
Israel should invest all its efforts with
all its best people to collect informa-
tion on Hamas. But that depends on