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| January 9, 2013
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Israel Navy & IDF evacuate stranded citizens amid ongoing rainstorm

IDF Unit 669 uses helicopters to rescue 15 people in Baka al-Gharbiya as the Navy helps families escape flood in rubber boats in Hadera.

 

IDF soldiers on bridge over Saar falls in Golan Photo: REUTERS

Rescue services were called into action Tuesday night to help stranded residents throughout Israel, as flooding from the ongoing storm that has hit nearly the entire country this week continued.

IDF soldiers on bridge over Saar falls in Golan

IDF soldiers on bridge over Saar falls in Golan – Photo: REUTERS

In the Haifa area on Tuesday night, IDF helicopters and crews from Unit 669 rescued 15 people stuck on the roof of a building in Baka al-Gharbiya, as rising water levels threatened to sweep them away.

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| January 8, 2013
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Photo Essay : Heavy Rains in Israel

Arutz Sheva’s readers sent in photos. Israel is flooded with welcome rains, which are also causing traffic congestion and power outages.

 pictures from Haaretz:
wn in both directio... Photo by Moti Milrod

Ayalon Highway shut down in both directions due to flooding. January 8, 2013
– Photo by Moti Milrod

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Railway station in Tel Aviv – Ofer Vaknin

 

Ayalon Highway shut down in both directions

Ayalon Highway shut down in both directions – Moti Milrod

Rainbow in the Hula Valley

Rainbow in the Hula Valley – Yaron Kaminsky

Stormy weather - AFP

Stormy weather – AFP

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Rainbow over Judean Desert – AFP

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Tel Aviv’s Ayalon River between train & highway – Moti Milrod

Stormy weather floods Mall in Modiin - Gil Coen-Mahar

Stormy weather floods Mall in Modiin – Gil Cohen-Mager

A car blocked by a fallen tree - Yair Etinger

A car blocked by a fallen tree – Yair Etinger

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| January 6, 2013
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Israel braces for heavy rains, snow & strong winds

Meteorologists expect one of the rainiest weeks in recent memory, with showers falling from the Galilee to the Negev and 100 km/h winds.

By JPOST.COM STAFF

 

Heavy rain fell from the North to the Negev overnight Saturday, with the stormy winter weather expected to continue on Sunday and throughout the week.

winter skies in the Galilee

Winter skies in the Galilee – IsraelandStuff/PP

Forecasters expect the coming week to be one of the rainiest in recent memory with some 100 millimeters of rain expected in central Israel and as much as 250mm. expected to fall in the North.

Mount Hermon is also expected to see continued snowfall throughout the week.

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| December 20, 2012
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Sea of Galilee water level rising sooner than expected

Israel is anticipating above-average rainfall this year, a pleasant contradiction to the past seven years of drought.

By Israel Today Staff

 

Israeli officials now believe that the region will receive more rain than expected this winter, bringing the Sea of Galilee back up to a level it has not been at in over 10 years.

The beach of the Sea of Galilee – Photo courtesy: Wikipedia

Speaking to Israel’s Ma’ariv newspaper, Israel Water Authority official Dr. Amir Givati noted that due to abundant rainfall already this winter, the Sea of Galilee already began to rise in late October, more than a month before is typically starts to rise in the annual rain cycle. Continue Reading »

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| October 26, 2012
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Morning rain brings flooding to Israel’s North

Eleven scuba divers are rescued off the Jaffa coast.

Firefighters are called to flooded retirement home in Haifa

By JPOST.COM STAFF
A burst of late-morning rain brought minor flooding to a number of cities in the North on Friday as an unusually resilient summer was suddenly relegated to sweat-filled memories of months past.
A storm touches down on water off Atlit coast

A storm touches down on water off Atlit coast – Photo: Baz Ratner / Reuters

In Haifa, the rains flooded at least one retirement home and local media reported water filling a number of local streets, Army Radio reported. Firefighters dispatched to the retirement home helped evacuate the elderly residents. Continue Reading »

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| March 4, 2012
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Kinneret rises 20 centimeters after Israel’s stormy weekend

Increase comes after heavy snowfall in northern Israel and Jerusalem, and as rains inundate Tel Aviv.

A weekend of heavy rains and snowstorms throughout the country contributed to a 20 centimeter rise in the level of Lake Kinneret, one of Israel’s primary sources of drinking water.

Kids throwing snowballs in the Golan Heights

Kids throwing snowballs at Ein Zivan in the northern Golan Heights this weekend. Photo by: Gil Eliyahu

The Kinneret’s water level has risen 30 centimeters since the beginning of the current round of storms last week. Since the beginning of the current storm system, Jerusalem has seen 168 millimeters of rain, Ariel 93, and Tel Aviv 58 millimeters.
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