Employees at the Haifa Municipality work at their temporary offices in Haifa on August 12, 2024, amid regional tensions during the ongoing war between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip. Memories are vivid in Haifa, about 30 kilometres (less than 20 miles) from the Lebanese border, of the 2006 war with Hezbollah when the militant group’s rockets repeatedly slammed into the city. (Photo by Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP)
