30 Years to Fully Recover From Israel Fires - Israel Today

30 Years to Fully Recover From Israel Fires

Tuesday, November 29, 2016 |  Israel Today Staff

Israeli experts lamented that it could take as much as 30 years to fully recover from the wave of fires that ravaged the country over the past two weeks.

While hundreds of homes were damaged or destroyed by the flames (mostly in the Haifa and Jerusalem areas) huge tracts of forests, including entire nature reserves, were decimated.

Current estimates are that well over 35,000 acres of forest were destroyed, and much of the wildlife living there was killed.

“While some of the foxes and hyenas and other animals managed to flee the fires, others were not so lucky. Snakes and turtles for example, did not survive,” Uri Naveh, head of the Nature and Parks Authority Jerusalem District, told Israel’s Ynet news portal.

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Fires Are Finally Out, But Tallies Are Devastating - Abra Forman BREAKING ISRAEL NEWS

Fires Are Finally Out, But Tallies Are Devastating

By Abra Forman November 29, 2016 BREAKING ISRAEL NEWS

“For a fire is kindled in My nostril, and burneth unto the depths of the nether-world, and devoureth the earth with her produce, and setteth ablaze the foundations of the mountains.” Deuteronomy 32:22 (The Israel Bible™)

The blazing brush fires which consumed Israel in the past week have finally been quenched, but the damage done is staggering, officials say. While Israel downgraded its state of emergency and sent most of its firefighters back to regular duty on Monday, it could take upwards of 30 years for the country to fully recover.

Between November 18 and November 25, firefighters faced 1,773 fires around the country, said Fire Services spokesman Yoram Levy on Monday. Of those, 39 were declared major, requiring ten or more firefighting teams.

Over 32,000 acres of land, both forest and urban, are estimated to have been destroyed by fires in Haifa, Zichron Ya’acov, Neveh Shalom, Modi’in, Neveh Ilan, Nataf, and other areas. The total amount of damage is 30 percent more than during 2010, when a massive fire in the Carmel mountains decimated five million trees.

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Franklin Graham: "Vice President-Elect Mike Pence Is Such A Class Act." - HELLOCHRISTIAN

Mike Pence

Franklin Graham: "Vice President-Elect Mike Pence Is Such A Class Act."

HELLOCHRISTIAN  Nov. 29, 2016

Mike Pence is soon to be our new Vice President. Recently, he was at a Broadway performance, when he was directly addressed by the cast members. The actors confronted Pence as he was leaving, urging him to "uphold our American values." Trump immediately responded, tweeting that "Our wonderful future V.P. Mike Pence was harassed last night at the theater by the cast of Hamilton, cameras blazing. This should not happen!"

Pence, however, has since responded saying that he 'wasn't offended' by the message. Pence said the boos he faced at the Broadway production of "Hamilton" were "what freedom sounds like," reports CNN. "I did hear what was said from the stage. I can tell you I wasn't offended by what was said. I will leave to others whether that was the appropriate venue to say it," he said.

Writing on Facebook, Franklin Graham subsequently called Pence a "class act," for this gracious response. "The Hamilton cast’s message to him that is getting so much media play didn’t upset him at all. He said that’s “what freedom sounds like.” I hope America realizes we’re getting a great vice president in this man, a man who will work for the good of the country."

DNA Tests Could Fulfill God’s Promise to Abraham by Revealing Millions of Jews. BREAKING ISRAEL NEWS

DNA Tests Could Fulfill God’s Promise to Abraham by Revealing Millions of Jews. But How Jewish is Jewish Enough?

By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz November 29, 2016 

“I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the seashore.” Genesis 22:17 (The Israel Bible™)

Recent advances in DNA testing are the final stage in bringing about a special vision of Messiah, one that will fulfill God’s promise to Abraham while uniting all three major Abrahamic religions, believes a prominent rabbi and former member of Knesset.

We need to bring close those who have their roots in Israel, those souls who stood at Mount Sinai with us, but their souls were lost to us because of the exiles and the catastrophes and tragedies that befell us throughout history.”“This is the special function of the final generation before the Messiah, which we are clearly in right now: to bring close all the descendants of Jews that were lost to the Jewish people,” Rabbi Chaim Amsalem, a prominent Sephardi rabbi, recognized authority on halacha (Torah law), and former Knesset member for Shas, told Breaking Israel News.

Making God One

DNA testing graphically illustrates how mankind is one large interconnected family. Rabbi Amsalem understands this universal reality to have repercussions for the Jewish role in bringing the Redemption.

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Therefore be ye very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the Torah of Moshe, that ye turn not aside therefrom to the right hand or to the left; Joshua 23:6 (The Israel Bible™)   וַחֲזַקְתֶּם מְאֹד לִשְׁמֹר וְלַעֲשׂוֹת אֵת כָּל הַכָּתוּב בְּסֵפֶר תּוֹרַת מֹשֶׁה לְבִלְתִּי סוּר מִמֶּנּוּ יָמִין וּשְׂמֹאול יהושע כג:ו va-kha-zak-TEM m’-OD lish-MOR v’-la-a-SOT ayt kol ha-ka-TUV b’-SAY-fer to-RATmo-SHEH l’-vil-TEE sur mi-ME-nu ya-MEEN u-s’-MOL

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