When the all-clear was given, the orchestra returned and the concert resumed. The orchestra left the stage, but after a few moments Stern returned and played a solo piece to an audience wearing gas masks. The audience, including Defense Minister Moshe Arens, was asked to don gas masks and remain seated. EST), maestro Zubin Mehta was conducting the Israeli Philharmonic with violinist Isaac Stern at the Jerusalem Theater. About 11,000 homes have been damaged, most of them in crowded neighborhoods in the Tel Aviv area. Two people have been killed and 230 wounded in previous attacks. Israeli military censors do not permit reports on the precise location of the hit. Witnesses said the missile fell in an open area in central Israel, causing a brush fire but no other damage. Patriot missiles were fired to intercept the Iraqi Scud, the 37th directed at Israel since the Gulf War began. He gave no details on where it landed or whether U.S. Nachman Shai, the chief Israeli army spokesman, said the missile caused no casualties. Sirens warned of an incoming Iraqi missile as time ran out for Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to announce an unconditional withdrawal from Kuwait or face a ground invasion by U.S. ″I put on my gas mask and kept on making pizzas,″ Lehman said at his shop in Tel Aviv. deadline to leave Kuwait, forcing concert-goers to don gas masks but leaving those inside Benny Lehman’s pizzeria unconcerned. TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) _ Iraq fired a missile at Israel on Saturday minutes before the U.S.
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