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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 647

Jerusalem Hills

Firefighters work to extinguish a forest fire burning in the Jerusalem hills, April 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
April 30, 2025, 10:45 pm
Hundreds battle blazes ripping through Jerusalem area; fire may be Israel’s largest ever
IDF helps fire service, police fight wildfires in Jerusalem hills as towns evacuated, Jerusalem-Tel Aviv road closed; dozens suffer smoke inhalation, burns, but nobody seriously hurt
By Charlie Summers, Emanuel Fabian, Lazar Berman and ToI Staff
A firefighter looks on as a wildfire rages near Mevo Horon, near Modi'in, April 30, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 30, 2025, 8:57 pm
Israel scrambles for international aid as wildfires rage near Jerusalem
FM Sa’ar contacts over a dozen countries as flames threaten towns in one of the country’s worst blazes; Italy, Croatia, France, Spain and Romania to send planes
By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff
Wood oven-baked foccaccia at Noa Bakery, in the Jerusalem hills. (Courtesy)
November 15, 2024, 10:30 am
Craving pastries that won’t flake out? Head for the (Jerusalem) Hills
A selection of bakeries outside the capital offer a moment of peace and delectable baked pleasures
By Jessica Steinberg
From left: Gilad Ostrovsky, chief forester and forestry department director at KKL-JNF, Chanan Zoref, recently retired director of the Judean Mountains District, and Shani Rohatyn-Blitz, the forestry department's coordinator of research and international relations, April 16, 2024. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)
June 5, 2024, 12:38 pm
KKL-JNF moves from massive planting to target-driven, sustainable management
Policy is ‘to ask not where we can plant, but if there is a reason to plant,’ says former official, as 103-year-old organization adapts to climate change, protects ecosystems
By Sue Surkes
The views from the private pools and hot tubs gracing most of the rooms at Kibbutz Maale Hahhamisha's Gordonia hotel (Courtesy Gordonia)
February 18, 2023, 8:26 am
Private hot tubs and pools abound at Jerusalem hills hotel named for Labor Zionist
Gordonia Hotel, the latest iteration of Kibbutz Ma’ale Hahamisha’s 80-year hospitality operation, draws guests who want views and pillow menus
By Jessica Steinberg
Reches Lavan, or White Ridge, west of Jerusalem. (Dov Greenblat, Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel)
December 14, 2021, 12:48 am
Lawmakers launch Knesset lobby to save Jerusalem hills from construction projects
Cross-party group, led by MK Alon Tal, will seek to keep all residential construction within city boundaries, as planners delay decision on controversial road
By Sue Surkes
Firefighters try to extinguish a fire near Givat Ye'arim, near Jerusalem, August 16, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
September 12, 2021, 10:04 am
As Israel gets hotter and drier, it must prevent fires, not just fight them
After the 2010 Carmel tragedy, Israel rebuilt its fire service bottom-up. But as last month’s Jerusalem Hills fire showed, firefighting can’t make up for a failed prevention policy
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Smoke and red fire retardant sprayed by Israeli firefighting aircraft mingles on a hillside on the third day of wildfires in the Jerusalem mountains, August 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
August 18, 2021, 2:13 pm
Daily Briefing Aug. 18 – Ecosystems after the fire: Israel’s hands-off approach
Environmental reporter Sue Surkes talks about how philanthropy can drive climate change tech; Arab affairs reporter Aaron Boxerman updates us about ongoing talks with Gaza
By ToI Staff
The charred corpse of a Mediterranean chameleon in the Jerusalem Hills, on August 17, 2021. (Yaniv Cohen, Israel Nature and Parks Authority)
August 18, 2021, 5:03 am
Ecologists worry over ecosystem’s recovery after huge Jerusalem-area blaze
Hundreds of thousands of small animals feared burned to death, with massive damage to fungi and insects, the basis of the web of life
By Sue Surkes
Cars drive on a road as heavy smoke and flames rise from a forest fire in the Jerusalem Hills near the Israeli village of Shoresh, on August 15, 2021. (Photo by Menahem KAHANA / AFP)
August 16, 2021, 7:01 am
Most of massive Jerusalem-area blaze brought under control, but hotspots remain
Officials say no more danger to homes, many residents allowed to return after evacuating from biggest fire in years; fire chief says blaze was manmade but not clear if intentional
By ToI Staff
Firefighters at the site of a a brush fire west of Jerusalem, August 15, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)
August 15, 2021, 11:47 pm
Huge Jerusalem-area wildfire burns into the night as police hunt for missing man
Local winery destroyed; Bennett says he expects flames to be under control by Monday afternoon, but warns, ‘It’s not over until it’s over’
By ToI Staff
Planes work to put out a forest fire in Beit Meir outside Jerusalem, July 5, 2018 (Flash90)
July 8, 2018, 3:49 pm
Police check if Jerusalem blaze was caused by stray fire from army exercise
20 fire trucks and six firefighting planes fought to control major forest fire on Thursday
By ToI Staff
Byzantine-era pools discovered at the site of Ein Hanya, near Jerusalem, and revealed to the public on January 31, 2018. (Assaf Peretz/Israel Antiquities Authority)
January 31, 2018, 4:13 pm
First Temple-era relics of possible royal estate found in Jerusalem hills
Authorities inaugurate ‘extraordinarily beautiful’ new site at Ein Hanya, where archaeologists reveal plethora of findings
By Michael Bachner
Gil and Jenna Lewinsky plan to open an ecological heritage park and educational farm for their 113 sheep, pictured here on January 15, 2017. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
February 1, 2017, 7:10 pm
After bleating a path to Israel, Jacob’s sheep frolic in new home
With flock’s 5,000-year exile and difficult quarantine beset by rains behind them, biblical sheep are baaaack in the Holy Land
By Melanie Lidman and Video by Luke Tress
Minister of Public Security Gilad Erdan with representatives from the foreign firefighting teams at a ceremony to thank the firefighters for helping to extinguish the wave of fires that swept across. Israel. Tuesday, November 29, 2016. (Israel Police spokesman via Facebook)
November 29, 2016, 10:34 pm
Israel honors foreign firefighters for ‘bravery in our time of need’
That there were no deaths during last week’s wave of fires, says minister, was partly thanks to personnel from abroad who rushed to help
By ToI Staff
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