The majority of cities across Israel have canceled their Yom Ha’atzmaut ceremonies scheduled for Wednesday evening as the wildfires that broke out earlier in the day continue to spread amid powerful winds and hot and dry weather conditions.
Fires have started spreading toward southern Israel.
The government announced on Wednesday morning [before the fire spread] that the main ceremony at Har Herzl was canceled due to the dangerous weather conditions.
Israel’s Fire and Rescue Services said that they will not have the resources to protect any ceremonies.
As of 4 p.m., after a situational assessment held by the chairman of the Local Government, Chaim Bibas, following numerous warnings about the extreme weather conditions and the raging fire in the Jerusalem Hills area and Highway 1, it was decided that each authority will make a decision regarding Yom Ha’atzmaut ceremonies according to the expected forecasts in its area, the recommendation of the authority’s safety advisor, and the instructions of the security and emergency bodies.
The Center for Local Government issued a recommendation to the authorities to postpone the celebrations to tomorrow evening. “The decision was made with the intention of maintaining public safety and allowing the security and rescue forces to concentrate their efforts around the emergency events.”
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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They can observe תשלומין on יום-ירושלים הבא עלינו לטובה especially this year in light of ונח מצא חן בעיני השם both נח and חן possessing גמטריה of 58, and this year being 58th anniversary of שחרור ירושלים.
As a corollary of יום-העצמאות parties having been upended for tomorrow which was original reason of being מוקדם to avoid חילול שבת:- Should הלל now be recited tomorrow or בזמנו this שבת?
May the so-called “Yom Ha’atzmaut” be cancelled forever.
bh. no reason to celebrate.
the state of israel caused many jews to die
Cancel the parties completely and hopefully the fires will stop
Knowing that it was Arabs that started it and it canceled yom haatzmaut festivities Israel should cause them not to enjoy their holidays