3.20.2009

What?? Trouble in Paradise?!?!?

In Israel, recession pressures boil over into looting

By Richard Boudreaux
March 19, 2009
Reporting from Hatzor Haglilit, Israel -- First came the employees, shortchanged two months' pay and laid off by the supermarket called God's Blessing. They rifled through their shuttered workplace, helping themselves to crates full of groceries.

As word spread through the small town, the store's jilted creditors joined in. They dismantled the light fixtures, ripped out wiring and absconded with the cash registers, even as television cameras rolled.

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