Charlie Summers

1 month ago | timesofisrael.com | Charlie Summers |Emanuel Fabian

A series of fires broke out in central Israel on Friday, a day after firefighters managed to gain control of massive blazes that ravaged the Jerusalem hills area for roughly 30 hours. Friday’s blazes — in the Latrun area near Jerusalem — were smaller, though, and the Fire and Rescue Service announced in the evening that there were ” no dramatic incidents” in the area.

1 month ago | timesofisrael.com | Sue Surkes |Jessica Steinberg |Jeremy Sharon |Charlie Summers

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1 month ago | timesofisrael.com | Charlie Summers |Emanuel Fabian |Lazar Berman

As darkness fell Wednesday evening, the Fire and Rescue Service’s Jerusalem District commander warned of long, critical hours ahead, as firefighters battled out-of-control forest fires raging on the outskirts of Jerusalem with no signs of slowing down. The fires in the Jerusalem hills area erupted on Wednesday morning, with the Fire and Rescue Service reporting blazes in at least five locations.

1 month ago | timesofisrael.com | Lazar Berman |Charlie Summers |Diana Bletter

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu paid tribute to Israeli soldiers who “broke the suffocating grip of our enemies,” as he spoke at one of the Memorial Day ceremonies taking place across the country on Wednesday. Israelis stood for two minutes in silence at 11 a.m. as sirens sounded nationwide, signaling the beginning of the Memorial Day events commemorating those who have fallen in decades of war, as well as victims of terror.

1 month ago | timesofisrael.com | Charlie Summers |Sam Sokol |Carrie Keller-Lynn

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