Cold outside: Mount Hermon is open to visitors, green is covered in ice

The intense cold that replaced the weekend rains, gave great views in white in the high places in the country.

Mount Hermon reported 25 cm of snow on the upper level, in the Galilee the plants were covered with ice flakes and on Mount Gerizim the puddles completely froze. Watch the beautiful sights

Ziv Reinstein

17/01/2022

Monday, 17 January 2022, 09:28 Updated: 10:16

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Snow on Mount Hermon, January 17, 2022 (Photo: Mount Hermon)

After the rainy weekend, the cold penetrated Israel, when the Hermon site reported a temperature of minus 6 degrees Celsius on the lower level this morning (Monday). The site's marketing director, Miki Inbar, told Walla! Tourism The bottom is 10 cm, while the top level is 25 cm.

"The extreme cold is expected to stay here today and tomorrow, and from Tuesday night into Wednesday there will probably be another short snow system," Inbar explained.

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The snow piled up this morning in the lower compound on Mount Hermon (Photo: Mount Hermon)

The summit of Mount Hermon from the Hula Valley, this morning (Photo: Studio A)

Puddles turned to ice

Meanwhile, ice has accumulated in quite a few high places and mountains in Israel.

For example, on Mount Gerizim in Samaria, whose summit rises to a height of 881 meters above sea level, this morning Rami Mustafa from the Nature and Parks Authority documented ice that accumulated in Mount Gerizim National Park and puddles of water that froze overnight.

Puddles that turned to ice on Mount Gerizim, this morning (Photo: Nature and Parks Authority, Rami Mustafa)

Another look at the ice on Mount Gerizim (Photo: Nature and Parks Authority, Rami Mustafa)

Ice on Mount Gerizim, January 17, 2022 (Photo: Nature and Parks Authority, Rami Mustafa)

Nature in the Galilee was covered in white

At the foot of Mount Meron, in Kibbutz Tzivon in the Upper Galilee, beautiful views of green nature and white ice were recorded in the morning.

Temperatures of minus 1.3 degrees were recorded this morning at 05:00.

"We woke up to a clear, dry, frozen morning, below zero," Hannah Tabak, who lives with her husband and two daughters on the kibbutz, told Walla!

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"It's really freezing outside and all the plants and water sources have frozen, and so have the cars and windows."

Blocks of ice covered the lawns, this morning at Kibbutz Tzivon (Photo: Photos by surfers, Hanna Tabak)

Nature is covered with beautiful ice openings (Photo: Photos by surfers, Hanna Tabak)

Puddles of water frozen in tulips (Photo: Photos by surfers, Hanna Tabak)

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