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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: A Canadian woman recounts surviving a missile strike that wrecked hundreds of Tel Aviv apartments
Description: In the early hours of Monday, June 16, Alana Ruben Free was sheltering in a friend’s safe room—with her friend, several other women and three cats—when they heard the loudest boom any of them had ever experienced. The six-storey apartment building in a popular Tel Aviv district was one of many that was destroyed or badly damaged by a powerful Iranian missile in the barrage that morning; in this case, the missile exploded in the parking lot directly across the street right smack in the neighbourhood’s central plaza.
The playwright and visual artist, who is originally from Fre...