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General04:00 · Dec 17, 2025

Kiryat Shmona Is Dying and Its Residents Are Fighting for Their Lives: “Everything Here Is Collapsing, the Young People Haven’t Returned”

By עדי חשמונאי
Translated & summarized from Haaretz by baba
Kiryat Shmona Is Dying and Its Residents Are Fighting for Their Lives: “Everything Here Is Collapsing, the Young People Haven’t Returned”
Editorial illustration generated by baba News — not a photograph of the event.
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