The storm not only affect Israel. In Beirut, the storm toppled an old wall and several graves at an old Jewish cemetery that dates back to the early 1820s.
A man walks along the shore of the Mediterranean Sea as a cargo vessel that arrived at Israel's Ashdod port and was swept away when a storm began is seen nearby, close to Ashdod's port in southern Israel December 26, 2019(photo credit: REUTERS/AMIR COHEN)ByALON EINHORN, REUTERS