Rare Snowstorm Paralyzes Mideast...01/28/00

JERUSALEM (AP) - A city in Israel's Negev Desert woke up blanketed in snow today and Muslim clerics in Jordan told worshippers to say their prayers at home after a rare snowstorm dumped up to 3 feet of snow over the region. In Jerusalem, which was covered in at least 15 inches of snow, a house in the Arab eastern sector collapsed, killing one Palestinian man and trapping his grandfather in the wreckage. In neighboring Jordan, the storm dumped two feet of snow on the capital Amman and nearly three feet in other regions, including the usually arid south and east. Ski operators at Mount Hermon, Israel's only ski resort, were happy about the storm.

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