Weather

Government agencies estimate that heat waves will impact the entire country, with most extreme conditions generally prevailing in the eastern valleys and less severe conditions in mountainous regions.

Winter rains have arrived on schedule in Israel, reaching from the north to the south, with high winds.

Despite all the cold emanating from the weather report, I chose to share with you the rainbow pictures we received from the Israel Nature and Parks Authority this morning.

The water level is now standing at 211.77 meters, just 2.8 meters from the top red line.

Israel is launching two civilian satellites into space, neither of them little more than the size of a carton of milk.

Golan Heights officials urged residents to stay home and stay safe. "“It is possible that when you leave the road will be clear, but at a later time snow will pile up and ... the road will be blocked.”

The students will study the data beamed from the orbiting Cubesats at the Herzliya Science Center.

Israel's last major earthquake struck in 1927, killing 130 in Jerusalem, but there are many minor quakes each year.

Due to the weather forecast and the high risk of floods in the Dead Sea region, the Israel Nature and Parks Authority closed the Ein Gedi Nature Reserve to travelers.

In some parts of Erie County, more than six feet of snow fell, with a whopping 80 inches of the white stuff recorded in Orchard Park, home of the NHL’s Buffalo Bills football team.

Some 50,000 acres in a 70-square-mile area went up in flames within just a few hours.

In response to the sweltering weather, the Fire and Rescue Commissioner has banned open-air fires this weekend.

Israel is overdue for "the big one" -- a major earthquake is expected in the region about every 80 to 100 years.

Rain, rain, don’t go way, we prayed for it and will gladly get wet anyway.

Families with children made plans for snowball fights, snow sculptures and in some more enterprising homes, “snow cones.”

The weather one experiences has an influence on the opinions he expresses, and in turn, on those who are influenced by these expressed opinions, a new Israel study has found.

The quakes struck an area southwest of Tiberias, just north of Kafr Kama at a depth of five kilometers. There were no reports of physical injuries.

This year the rain that usually comes to Israel in its "season" on Sukkot did not wait, and arrived instead on Rosh Hashana.

More than seven inches of rain fell in Brooklyn and more than six inches of rain was reported in Manhattan, Queens and the Bronx, with peak rainfall amounts of three inches per hour.

Some of these Gazan tunnels were estimated to have cost $3 million to construct, but will they sustain continued flooding by rain and sewer water?

It's not yet clear what started the fires in so many different locations on Sunday, but it has been especially hot and dry in Israel for the past week or more.

Local television stations broadcast images of people fleeing into the streets, where rubble and collapsing buildings were seen.

The Israeli volunteers have left their loved ones knowing they would be missing Rosh Hashanah at home.

Israelis have broken the nation's record for energy consumption in this week's heat wave.

It will be sunny on Wednesday and Thursday, but the freezing kind of north-eastern sunny.

Be'er Sheva's newest mall was apparently also its most vulnerable -- part of the roof caved in to the rain.

Firefighters were rushed to deal with 411 fires, of which 212 were in open areas (52%).

The third earthquake today (plus an aftershock).

Due to the hot, dry and windy conditions, the fire was able to spread rapidly.

At present, the water level is just 0.21 meters higher than the historic lowest water level ever measured in the Kinneret.