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The wave of fires

A Greek firefighting plane drops water as part of helping to extinguish the fire on Nahal HaGivori road, Haifa' 22/11/2016/ Photo: CC BY-SA 4.0 Avi Ben Zaken, from Wikipedia

prevent the next fire

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A Greek firefighting plane drops water as part of helping to extinguish the fire on Nahal HaGivori road, Haifa' 22/11/2016/ Photo: CC BY-SA 4.0 Avi Ben Zaken, from Wikipedia

Unlike most Western countries, Israel does not have an active plan to deal with disasters caused by climate change

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Burnt trees in Beit Oren after the fire in Carmel in 2010. One of the common mistakes that occur after a fire is quickly entering the area with heavy tools to cut down and remove burned trees. Photo: Hanay / wikimedia.

Scorched Earth

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The view of the fires in Haifa and the Jerusalem mountains from space, the smoke trail extending over 100 km to the Mediterranean Sea. Source: NASA's Aqua/MODIS satellite from the World View website. Thanks to Amir Burnett for the link to the photo

The fires in Haifa and the Jerusalem area were observed from space; The fires are consistent with global warming models

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