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After surviving the Holocaust and five Middle East wars, Ze\’ev is a hard man to impress. But news of Saddam Hussein\’s capture Sunday managed to move the Israeli retiree to tears.

\”It is good to see Israel a little bit safer,\” Ze\’ev said in his hometown of Ramat Gan, as footage of the Iraqi tyrant-turned-prisoner played on television screens at roadside snack stands. Ramat Gan, where Iraqi Jewish emigres settled en masse in the 1950s, ironically was a main target of Saddam\’s Scud missiles in the 1991 Persian Gulf War.