The catastrophic wildfires that ravaged Northern California in August 2020 were sparked by lightning strikes, burning more than 1.5 million acres and claiming dozens of lives.
Israel, too, has seen destructive, fatal forest fires.
The most notorious was the one in December 2010 on Mount Carmel near Haifa. It spread quickly, consuming much of the Mediterranean forest covering the region. With a death toll of 44, it was the deadliest civil disaster in Israeli history until the 2021 Meron…
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