Porcupine wounds evacuee from Kiryat Shmona

(JNS) — An evacuee from Israel’s north was wounded over the weekend when a porcupine violently attacked him over the weekend on the grounds of the hotel where he was staying.

Shalom Yonassi, a 50-year-old resident of Kiryat Shmona who has been evacuated to the Herbert Samuel Bayit Bagalil Hotel Spa in Hatzor HaGlilit due to the Hezbollah threat, was rushed to Safed’s Ziv Medical Center, where surgeons removed 40 spines from his legs and feet.

“We are staying at a hotel in the middle of the Biriya Forest. There are many animals there, including porcupines,” Yonassi told Israel’s Channel 12 News...