(Photo By: Abigail Leichman)
By: Abigail Klein Leichman - August 26, 2021
“In the 10 years I have been a forester, I don’t remember fires like this. It’s something really unusual,” admits Nurit Hibsher, head of forestry for the central region at the Keren Kayameth LeIsrael-Jewish National Fund (KKL-JNF).
Hibsher was standing in Sataf Forest, west of Jerusalem less than a week after one of the largest wildfires in Israel’s history ripped through the area, destroying 6,200 acres of woodlands in the Judean Hills.
It took some 1,500 firefighters working for 52 hours to finally put out the blazes, which are reported to have been set deliberately in three different locations.
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