Tag: Fire

Israeli fire authorities suspect that arson is behind the massive forest fires that erupted near Jerusalem and in Samaria on Wednesday. “The motive could be nationalistic,” Jerusalem Fire and Rescue Services District Commander Nissim Twito told Channel 13,...

Incendiary devices launched from the Gaza Strip into Israeli communities along the border resumed on Thursday with firefighters currently battling blazes in fields surrounding Kibbutz Kissufim in southern Israel. Eshkol Council Security Officer Ilan Isaacson...

A second arson attack on a Delaware Chabad House in two months happened over the weekend as the Chabad Center for Jewish Life in Wilmington was set on fire. The fire happened around 12:30 a.m....

This year alone, Australia battled its largest-ever bushfire, California has more than 500 blazes burning, many of them mega-fires, and forest fires have been reported in 14 other U.S. states. In August, Argentina registered 8,493...

Another fire broke out in an industrial area near Tehran on Tuesday, Iranian state TV reported. A fire department official said the incident was under investigation, reported Reuters. “The fire broke out at the industrial area of...

The Great Synagogue in Illintsi, Ukraine, was burned irreparably last Thursday by fire. The 18th-century structure, about 130 miles northeast of the country’s capital of Kiev, collapsed due to the flames. It had been used since...

Islamists worldwide have been celebrating the destruction of large parts of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris in a devastating fire on April 15. Reactions by jihadis on social media refer to the cathedral as...

Members of the Jewish community reacted with sadness to the massive fire that burst through the roof of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris on Monday and toppled its spire. “Terrible images of the Cathedral of...