"We're here to stay," says Israeli man risking bombs to sell burgers
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World Why an Israeli man risks bombs to sell burgers near the Lebanon border: "This is our home" By Charlie D'Agata, Charlie D'Agata Senior national security correspondent Charlie D'Agata is CBS News' senior national security correspondent. He was previously a senior foreign correspondent and has spent more than two decades covering international news for CBS. Read Full Bio Charlie D'Agata, Steve Berriman June 10, 2026 / 9:56 AM EDT / CBS News Add CBS News on Google Kiryat Shmona, Israel — Opening a new burger joint in the middle of a raging war, just a stone's throw from Iranian-backed Hezbollah militants in Lebanon, might seem a little unhinged. But Yehezkel Schweiger doesn't see it that way."It's very patriotic," the Israeli restaurateur told CBS News as he showed off his diner-style restaurant. "We really wanted the community to feel that they have another good place to come and hang out, relax from all of the things that's going around here."And there is a lot going on around here. Earlier that afternoon we had to take cover in a bomb shelter — even though we were on a heavily defended Israeli military outpost — as an incoming threat was detected by Israeli air defenses. Israeli restaurateur Yehezkel Schweiger (right) speaks with CBS News' Charlie D'Agata at his burger bar, Kvishtish, in the northern Israeli city of Kiryat Shmona, near the border with Lebanon, June 8, 2026. CBS News Hezbollah has launched rockets and drones at the northern Israeli city of Kiryat Shmona pretty much daily since the U.S. and Israel went to war with Iran at the end of February. When the air raid sirens blare, you have seconds, not minutes, to take shelter.Schweiger has two young sons and a baby girl on the way. He said it's tough sending his 7-year-old to school knowing the risks involved. But asked if it bothers him, being so close to the border, he didn't hesitate: "No. I get up every morning since I'm here and I look around at the view that I hav...




