About 50 yachts, power and sail, plowed through choppy seas from Tel Aviv to Jaffa on Tuesday in a gala regatta that belied the fact that Tel Aviv remains under threat of Iraqi missile attack.
It was not exactly a race but a “pass-in-review” to salute Tel Aviv, which has suffered casualties and extensive property damage from Scud missile attacks since Jan. 18.
Mayor Shlomo Lahat sounded the starting signal with a blast of an air horn on a yacht.
Participants included the U.S. ambassador to Israel, William Brown, an avid yachtsman, who reached the marina just in time after a meeting with Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir in Jerusalem.
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