As darkness fell Wednesday evening, the Fire and Rescue Service’s Jerusalem District commander warned of long, critical hours ...

Wildfires raging near Jerusalem forced evacuations in several areas and led to several major road closures on Wednesday, as ...

A wildfire has shut the main highway linking Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, sending at least a dozen people to the hospital and ...

Israel has ordered six schools in East Jerusalem to close this week, throwing the educational future of 800 children of ...

Wind-fueled fires in Israel are tearing through brush outside Jerusalem, prompting the evacuation of residents and leaving ...

Most of the fires remain out of control, except for the previous hotspots of Canada Park and Mevo Horon. In these locations, ...

What many initially feared might be natural turned out to be something far more sinister: deliberate ecological terror.

As Israel grappled with one of the largest wildfires ever in the country this week and the blaze barrelled towards Jerusalem, ...

The large wildfires that swept through the Mateh Yehuda Regional Council a county located west of Jerusalem on Wednesday, ...

The blazes were concentrated on the city’s outskirts and firefighting efforts are ongoing, authorities said. At least nine ...

Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared the situation a national emergency, pleading for international aid. Firefighter planes from Greece, Cyprus, Croatia and Italy were sent to tackle the blaze, ...