Israel storm

Israel braces for storm with wind gusts up to 110 km/h, red alert in Center, Northern Israel

The storm, described as unusually strong, is expected to bring westerly winds of around 50 km/h, with gusts up to 110 km/h along the coastal plain.

View of floods in the central city of Yavne, as storm "Byron" hits Israel. December 11, 2025.
Israeli soldiers near the Israeli border with Lebanon, northern Israel, October 16, 2023.

IDF declares curfew, all army activities reduced to essentials only ahead of Storm Byron

An Israeli flag flutters as a thunderstorm rages in the Golan Heights, northern Israel, December 6, 2025

Storm Byron expected to reach Israel Wednesday, flash floods and heavy rain anticipated

View of Lake Kinneret (the Sea of Galilee), northern Israel

NIS 2 million allotted to Kinneret beach restoration


Hail and thunderstorms: Unseasonal weather continues in Israel

Rescue services are standing by in case of floods.

Hail in Tel Aviv, May 7, 2018

Police find man's body in south, week after truck driver goes missing

Ayman Jaber has been missing since the floods last week.

Israeli rescue services personnel operate near the site where a group of Israeli youths was swept away by a flash flood, near the Zafit river bed, south to the Dead Sea, Israel, April 26, 2018

Head of premilitary academy steps down after deadly excursion

The students drowned in flash floods, and amid questions into why the trip went ahead despite the severe weather conditions, police arrested Kahan and two other staffers.

Dozens of teenagers gathering in circles Tel Aviv's Rabin Square, in memory of those killed in the Tzafit canyon flood disaster.

IN PICTURES: Severe weather strikes Israel

People seek shelter during a rain storm in Jerusalem, April 25, 2018

Heavy winds and rains disrupt country amid powerful weekend storm front

Rescue workers extricate hikers trapped in floods, remove downed tree limbs, Kinneret rises 7 cm.

A fallen tree rests on two cars in Tel Aviv’s Ben-Yehuda Street Friday.

IsraAID to send more officials, supplies to alleviate devastated Vanuatu islands

"The best thing we can do right now is respond to each appeal as it comes. Time is against us but we will do whatever we can to help."

Vanuatu Arrival

Country braces for flash floods, strong winds, snow

Jerusalem schools to close at noon ahead of expected flurries.

Rain in Jerusalem