M. lives in a one-bedroom apartment on the main street of an Israeli town.

M. yelled the name of the Israeli town where he had been living.

"The same security concerns and operational considerations don't apply in Israeli towns."

Land value is also extremely low, often four to six times lower than in central Israeli towns and cities.

Television images of the carnage in the northern Israeli town had left him cold, he said today.

Elsewhere today, a Palestinian gunman was shot dead while attacking an Israeli town.

"I've certainly come to Israel," he said at the airport near this central Israeli town.

Shalom Courts are to be found in most Israeli towns.

The army said the attack took place just across the border, 300 yards from the the Israeli town of Metulla.

It is not unusual for Israeli towns to turn shelters into community centers of some sort.