An Israeli man ran through a swarm of locusts on Wednesday in the village of Kmehin in Israel’s southern Negev desert near the Egyptian border.
A Locust Plague, Shy of Biblical Proportions, in Israel
For many Israelis, the biblical comparisons were irresistible: locusts were swarming across the border from Egypt three weeks before Passover, like a vivid enactment of the eighth plague visited upon the obdurate Pharaoh. Others with a more modern sensibility said it felt more like Hitchcock.
NY Times
