Security measures went into high gear this weekend here and in other major cities in an effort to thwart any atrocities by terrorist organizations during the Security Council debate on the Mideast. Security officials warned that terrorists might, attempt actions similar to that which occurred noontime Friday in Ramot Eshkol where a home-made bomb exploded in a supermarket and injured eight people, one of them seriously.
The supermarket is in a new suburban residential area built on what was no-man’s-land before 1967 and inhabited mainly by Western immigrants. Seven of the injured were women shoppers. The eighth, who required surgery and was taken to the Shaare Zedek Hospital, was a shop assistant. The bomb was made of a metal tube stuffed with explosives and connected to a time fuse.
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