Hanukkah commemorates the rededication of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem in 164 B.C. According to tradition, a candelabra was lit with only enough oil for one day, but it miraculously burned for eight days. ...
... Forty dead and 13,000 evacuated - Netanyahu appeals for international aid as blaze swamps Israel's emergency capacity and threatens city of Haifa; prison guards killed when fallen tree traps bus in flames.
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... A 14-year-old boy from the Carmel region admitted Monday to throwing a piece of burning coal into the forest and causing what later became the largest and most devastating forest fire in Israel's history.
Police arrested the teen early on Monday, and he admitted during his interrogation to smoking a Hookah pipe in the forest, and later disposing the burning piece of coal into an open area in the woods, which caused a fire to erupt. ...
Hookah pipe, or Yahwah/Allah?...
'Fire is God punishing Israel for occupying Arab lands'
Monday, December 6, 2010
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