(Photo By: AP Photo/Noah Berger)

(Photo By: AP Photo/Noah Berger)

By TOI Staff and AP - August 28, 2020

Israel will dispatch a team of firefighters to California to help the US state battle the largest fires in its recent history, the Foreign Ministry announced Friday.

The Israeli delegation, organized together with the Public Security Ministry, is set to depart Sunday and will be in California for two weeks.

Alongside the firefighters, experts on rescue and forest fires, as well as a Foreign Ministry representative, will make the trip, according to a ministry statement.

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