JERUSALEM: Israeli authorities are trying to figure out how a heavily armored, but unarmed, tank was stolen from a military training zone after finding it discarded in a junkyard.
The Israeli Merkava 2 tank disappeared from a training zone in northern Israel near the coastal city of Haifa, the Israeli army said Wednesday. The training zone is closed to the public when in use, but is otherwise accessible to passersby.
NEW YORK: Lebanon “doesn’t need to be the economic basket case that it is,” with the crisis-hit country’s business culture offering a path forward, the US president’s energy security tsar said on Wednesday.
“Lebanese run businesses in every country on the planet,” said Amos Hochstein. “Wherever you go there are Lebanese entrepreneurs, doctors, CEOs and financiers. But they have to leave Lebanon to do it.”