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Preparing for war, Israel’s north looks to lessons from 2006

A projection of what Rambam Hospital’s underground hospital will look like once it is completed. (Rambam Hospital, Haifa)

When missiles rained down on northern Israel from Lebanon six years ago, surgeons at Rambam Hospital in Haifa worked, terrified, on the building’s eighth floor. That summer, missiles had struck fewer than 20 yards away, endangering the staff and patients of northern Israel’s largest hospital and the central facility… Read more »