Should the Arabs attack Israel’s population centers there are enough gas masks stocked to equip most of the country’s 3.1 million citizens, Brig. Gen. Yitzhak Zeid, the civil defense commander, said this week. He also told a news conference that Israel had spent more on air raid shelters since the disengagement agreements a year ago than in the seven previous years.
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