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Israel’s Fire and Rescue Authority will dispatch a team of five fire protection experts to Los Angeles where firefighters are battling unprecedented wildfires.
75% of the damage happened during the first two weeks of June.
By COLlive.com
The cause of the fire is not yet clear.
By Vera Kessler
Rebbetzin Miriam Yerushalmi gives a powerful interview about Cognitive Behavioral Torah Therapy.
The scientists used AI tools to search for molecular signals from the stone tools.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Firefighters were rushed to deal with 411 fires, of which 212 were in open areas (52%).
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The fires led to the evacuation of the communities of Beit Meir, Shoresh, Shoeva, Kisalon, Givat Yearim, Ramat Raziel, Tzuba and the medical facility at Eitanim, and caused extensive damage in the area.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Firefighting forces were alerted to locations eight locations throughout the areas adjacent to the Gaza Strip
Fire officials has already suspected the fire was man made.
The worst of the fire is now under control.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Officials believe that the fire was created by humans, but it is yet unclear if this was an act of arson, and possibly terrorism, or the result of negligence.
The smoke is covering much of Jerusalem and Gush Etzion, miles away.
An alert citizen noticed the terrorist starting the fires and alerted the authorities.
Massive fires are raging north of the cities of Limassol and Larnaca and have affected at least six communities in the foothills of the Troodos mountain range.
The Israeli team found that early humans may have had a good understanding of the effects of heating the stone before flaking it into blades, and they may have used different temperatures to create different types of tools.
Police sappers were also alerted to several scenes to dismantle suspected explosive charges tied to balloons.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The heat wave and terror-arsonists have been responsible for some large fires in Israel.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Critical donations are being sent in the wake of the massive brush fires that have resulted in the death of millions of species since September.
Firefighters worked to put out the fire before it could cause too much damage.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Israeli-owned vineyards and fields in the Shiloh area in Samaria on Wednesday were consumed in a blaze ignited by Arab arsonists.
By JNi.Media
The Torah scrolls had been moved to a university library near the museum before the fire.
By JNi.Media
When asked about the gas in the containers he was carrying, Stolper told the officers, “I bought the gas to make a small BBQ.”
The funds will come from the tax Israel collects on behalf of the Palestinian Authority under the terms of the 1994 Paris Accords signed between the sides as part of the Oslo Peace Accords.
The massive fire is spreading along the border with Jordan.
The manager of the excavation says the stone is a “rare and very special discovery” since only about ten similar slabs from this period have been found.
Many homes were burned down in the pyro-terrorist attacks.
A 5-alarm fire spread like lightning, totally destroying a building in Queens, NY that stood for generations and housed 14 businesses.
Last week’s fires did little to illuminate much of the unknown still shrouding another conflagration that flared up, almost a year and a half ago in Duma, an Arab village.
Flames from a brush fire spread to a nearby yeshiva in Jerusalem, and caused damage to the building.
An aerial view of Neve Tzuf (Halamish) after it was hit by pyroterrorism on November 24, 2016.
Reuters' bureau chief in Israel tweeted a sensationalist Palestinian claim that the fires were set by Jewish settlers trying "to destroy as much as possible of the Palestinian agricultural land."
By JoeSettler
The Prime Minister used the Supertanker to wash his cars.... This is satire people... satire.
'We have come to Haifa and we have invited council heads from across the north whose communities were affected by the fires in order to give them clear message: All government ministries are committed to extending a hand to you quickly.'
Quick stats since the current wave of fires and pyroterrorism began last week...
The band was forced to postpone their Haifa concert due to the fires.
Fire crews and airplanes were fighting the fire.
The pyroterrorism attacks continue...
Some 200 families were evacuated.
JewishPress.com is blogging the efforts of Israel's firefighters and security personnel battling pyroterrorists.
The Arabs were caught on security cameras starting the fire... security then caught the #Pyroterrorists...
JewishPress.com is blogging the efforts of Israel's firefighters and security personnel battling pyroterrorists.
MK Boker says government funding for fire buffer lines could have prevented injuries and property damage.
Four people have been arrested in connection with at least one of the fires that have raged across the country.
The Syrian civil war continues.
If leftist activists really cared about black Americans, Mac Donald argues, they would champion the police.
By JNi.Media
While the congregation hastily made its way out of the building, Rabbi Liberow and a few of the congregants were able to get the Torah scrolls and prayer books out.
A survivor of a house fire with burns to over 80% of her body, tells all.
Understanding the Chain of Command and Open Fire regulations in Israel.
It’s the magic ingredient that adds a measure of oomph to the day.
IDF troops along the Gaza border were shot at...
By Batya Medad
Is new Defense Minister Lieberman changing the rules of engagement to the dangerous missile attacks by Gazan Arab terrorists to aproper and suitable response? Or is this a one time event?
The masked arsonists came up from the nearby Arab settlement of Beit Omer.
One of the drivers managed to shoot back at the terrorist.
Four homes in Ramat Gilad were destroyed from the subsequent fire.
A large brush fire in Mount Hebron was ignited by an IDF flare as soldiers hunted for a terrorist.
The tragedy has shaken the Gaza Strip and spurred angry finger pointing among the two dominant terrorist factions.
The IDF does not, and will not, tolerate any attempt to threaten the lives of the people of Southern Israel and is determined to continue to foil any attempt to do so.
By JNi.Media
Traditionally, hundreds of believers meet the fire carrying delegation at Vnukovo airport, to bring the fire to their parishes.
By Naama Klein
Though dozens of beautiful and memorable Pesachs have passed since that fateful chag thirty-five years ago, the memory of that tragic Yom Tov is forever engrained in our family’s collective memory.
Once again the Dawabshe clan and the Shin Bet disagree with one another.
There is at least one person trapped on the fourth floor.
By JNi.Media
Another home from the Dawabsha clan burned down last night in Duma. There's confusion if it the fire was electrical or from a village feud.
Firefighters fought a large fire in Ein Yael, Jerusalem, located opposite the Biblical Zoo, and up the road from Malcha Mall.
A 37-year old Chareidi man, Meir Lebel "haRakdan haYerushalmi" (the dancing Jerusalemite), was seen breathing fire at the Kotel, the Tower of David and other locations in Jerusalem's Old City on April 29, 2015. Fire breathing is the act of creating a plume of fire by breathing a stream of fuel over an open flame. […]
The fire, caused by the Shababt Blech, swept through the house while the family slept.
If fire indeed was invented in Israel, will the Boycott Israel movement stop lighting matches?
A large fire threatened Yitzhar, but now it is under control.
Car fires are car fires,” said the Atlantic City fire chief. But the car was parked!
Nothing like solidarity.
Police and rescue teams evacuated dozens of hikers and residents threatened by three fires.
A rocket launched from Gaza hit a paint factory in Sderot's industrial zone, causing a massive fire.
Thousands evacuated and houses on fire as planes try to water bomb the blaze.
Just two days after the Pope visited Bethlehem, there was a fire in the Church of the Nativity. Coincidence?
Two illegal workers from the Palestinian Authority died in a moshav fire near Latrun.
Two worshippers in a synagogue on Passover saved a child from death in a burning car that exploded shortly after the rescue. The worshippers rushed to the burning vehicle after hearing the family’ scream for help, and they found the toddler strapped in a car seat. The worshippers, Moshe Kupperman and a second man, identified […]
Thick black smoke from the fire can be seen for miles.
A rabbi and his daughter at the Chabad Lubavitch day care center in Salt Lake City, Utah saved two Torah scrolls from possible destruction Monday after he smelled smoke in the building. Twenty children, including five infants, were evacuated, according to the local Tribune newspaper. A faulty furnace was cited as the source of the […]
By JTA
Fire damaged the first floor of the former site of the Agriprocessors kosher meat processing plant in Iowa. The late Friday night fire at Agri Star Meat & Poultry in Postville started in a dryer that was left on in the plant’s laundry room, according to reports, and has been classified as accidental. No one […]
By Shalom Bear
The soldiers were destroying the terror tunnel, inside Gaza when they were attacked.
Eye witness reports say that a massive fire is engulfing the mountain tops near the IDF Mitkan Adam army base. 25 Fire Engine crews are working to put out the blaze and prevent it from spreading to Road 6. Soldiers are currently being evacuated from the base. Some people have been reported as lightly injured. […]
Nine cars caught fire in the UN compound in Jerusalem, according to a report in Times of Israel. In the Armon HaNatziv neighborhood, firefighting crews battled the fire inside the UN compound that burned up between four to nine cars. The fire department believes the fires were started by sparks from bonfires in a nearby […]
At the age of seventeen, Yosef was wise in the ways of the Torah and in the ways of the world. He was called a “ben zikunim” because even at such a young age he showed the brilliance of an elder scholar. He had already absorbed all the Torah Yaakov had learned in the many years he had spent in the yeshiva of Shem.
By JTA
A bipartisan slate of U.S. senators urged Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi to crack down on arms smuggling into the Gaza Strip.
By Hadar Sela
December 2nd will mark two years since the Mount Carmel forest fire disaster in which 44 people died, including members of the Israeli Prison Service, a bus driver, members of the Israeli Police Force and fire-fighters. Two years on, the 35,000 dunams of forest and natural woodland consumed by the fire still bears the scars, but signs of […]
By dvora
Allan is a very troubled nineteen-year-old who has been coming to see me since August. Actually, I’m never sure if Allan will make it to the next appointment. Since we first met, I have been amazed at the amount of emotional turmoil and pain he is in. Every appointment seems to bring another “cry” for help. His anguish is noted by his constant crying and threats of harm to himself and others.
You arrive home after shul on Friday night. All the dishes washed before Shabbat are locked in the dishwasher. You have no other eating utensils and you want to retrieve them for the Friday night meal. In order to take them out you have to unlock the door by turning the lever lock to the left. The action of the lever to unlock the door automatically turns off the panel indicator lights that advise you the dishwashing cycle is complete. So you cannot open the door without turning off the lights. What do you do?
After the Pillar of Defense cease-fire, many now understand what we understood after the Zo Artzeinu demonstrations: The Israeli crisis is not on the continuum between Right and Left. It is on the continuum between Israelis and their Jewish identity.
By Dov Shurin
As I write this, Defense Minister Ehud Barak has just announced, during a televised press conference, his decision not to run in the coming elections and to leave politics.
We doubt anyone outside of the Palestinian street really believes the stream of Hamas hyperbole that it emerged from Operation Pillar Of Defense in a better position than before. Of course, we have come to expect this sort of fantasy-based spin from much of the Arab world. Indeed, all reports prior to the cease-fire indicated that Hamas’s military capacity had been severely degraded and its ability to shoot rockets at Israel largely neutralized, at least for now. And Hamas lost some of its top military commanders.
By JTA
A Muslim imam in Gaza has issued a religious edict, or fatwa, that says it is a sin to violate the cease-fire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Since the commencing of Operation 'Pillar of Cloud' the police have recorded many events of terrorist activities and public disturbance in Judea and Samaria, which constitute a sharp increase in terrorist activity in the region. Stones and Molotov cocktails were thrown at cars, roads were blocked and tires were burned, marches were conducted. 201 events […]
Palestinians claim that the IDF killed and injured Gazans who approached the border fence.
Rabba Bar Bar Chana related the following, “Sailors told me that once they were threatened with gigantic waves that could have sunk their ships. These waves appeared with a ray of whitish light at their crest and when they struck it with clubs engraved with the words ‘I will be what I will be, L-rd G-d, King of Hosts, Amen, Amen, Selah,’ the waves subsided.”
PM Netanyahu's Statement at November 21 Press Conference with Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Defense - Operation Pillar of Defense – Cease-Fire
True to his word, President Obama has demonstrated that when it comes to Israel’s security, he does indeed have the country’s back. In the current confrontation with Hamas, he has from the start unequivocally laid the blame on Hamas and said Israel has the right to defend itself and that for the crisis to end Hamas must stop firing rockets at Israel.
July 3, 2026 
