MIDEAST ISRAEL ESCAPISM
A woman sunbathes behind of a blue screen divider in the camp area at the Boombamela festival southern Mediterrenean beach of Netzanim Wednesday April 11, 2001. After more than half a year of renewed Israeli Palestinian fighting, weary Israelis are flocking to spring festivals and travelling abroad to temporarily escape life in a tiny, increasingly tense country where hourly news updates repeat stories of bombings and killing.
