Posts Tagged: Israel Fires
Panic on Memorial Day: Sights and Sounds From Israel
I was at the Memorial Day ceremony at Habima Square in Tel Aviv, which is like Israel’s Lincoln Center. This is not like America’s Memorial...
Israel Is Burning: The War in the North Could Make Gaza Look Small in Comparison
Large swaths of northern Israel, already rendered uninhabitable by months of Hezbollah rocket fire, are now ablaze. Nearly 100,000 Israelis who were forced from their...
Fires Set Off by Hezbollah Rockets Spread Through Northern Israel
Large swaths of northern Israel were engulfed by wild fires set off by rockets launched from Lebanon by the Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah, with rescue teams battling on Monday to get them under control. Many Israelis who...
How Israel Is Helping the World Fight Forest Fires
JNS.org - This year alone, Australia battled its largest-ever bushfire; California has more than 500 blazes burning, many of them mega-fires; and forest fires have...
Incendiary Balloons From Hamas in Gaza Cause Dozens of Fires in Southern Israel
JNS.org - Incendiary balloons launched from Gaza on Thursday caused at least 30 fires, including 17 substantial ones, in southern Israel, according to estimates by...
As Fields Burn, IDF Mulls Use of Multi-Rotor Drones Against Palestinian ‘Fire Kites’
JNS.org - Palestinian demonstrators continued to launch kites fitted with firebombs from the Gaza Strip into Israel on Thursday in the hopes of sparking fires. The incendiary kites caused...
Jewish Agency, Boston Philanthropies Distribute Aid to Haifa Fire Victims
JNS.org - The heads of the Jewish Agency and Boston’s Combined Jewish Philanthropies (CJP) visited Haifa Wednesday to distribute aid funds to victims of last week’s...
Israel Public Security Minister Says Nearly Half of Last Week’s Wildfires Were Arson
JNS.org - Israel’s public security minister said Wednesday that between 40 and 50 percent of the fires that broke out across the country last week were the...
Arson Confirmed as Cause for Several Israel Fires, Qualifying Victims for State Restitution
Fires in nine cities and settlements hit in the rash of blazes that spread across the country over the past week were caused by arson...
After Massive Diaspora Response, Israel’s Raging Fires Come Under Control
JNS.org - Improving weather conditions, a massive influx of support from the international community and efforts by Israeli first-responders have enabled the Jewish state to get...
Wives of Firefighters Recount Anxiety, Fear for Husband’s Lives During Days of Battling Blazes Across Israel
The wives of three members of Israel's Fire and Rescue Services, who spent the last several days terrified for the lives of their husbands as...
Israel’s Arab Leadership Must Cease Fanning the Flames of Hatred
The current wave of Palestinian and Arab arson in Israel is being fueled and encouraged by antisemitic incitement on Arab social media. Although the arsonists constitute an extremist...
Mass Destruction of Israeli Community Hit by Suspected Arson Revealed in Aerial Footage, as Cross-Country Blazes Come Under Control
As firefighters battled final blazes in the West Bank settlement of Halamish on Sunday, aerial footage revealed a picture of mass destruction at the scene,...
Netanyahu Calls Arson Attacks ‘Terror in Every Way’
JNS.org -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that any of the fires plaguing northern and central Israel this week found to be the work...
