There have been many fires in the Jerusalem area in the last 20 years, but never remember that pillars of smoke covered the sky, and to be more poetic - covered the eye of the sun, as it was on a late afternoon Sunday.
From the west, beyond Givat Shaul, a huge column of smoke rose, and no report was heard on the radio.
The smoke had shades of color.
The sky to the southeast became cloudy.
A strong wind that is not typical of the month of August ignited the fire and the smoke.
The heat in the Jerusalem area was not unusual.
As sources in the fire department said, it looks like an arson or even an arson system.
The current government, as usual, does not know who is in charge and what ministers or prime ministers are supposed to do.
Firefighters know what to do.
Any crisis event at this time causes senior ministers to look in a different direction.
All this madness rhymes with misfortune with the American collapse in Afghanistan, with the deja vu sights from Vietnam, from Saigon.
And just think about those Americans who invested so much in overthrowing the previous Israeli government, and in the formation of this patched and unnatural coalition headed by the Chief Fire Commissioner, who is both the chief epidemiologist and the chief recreationist.
But assuming that someday a representative government of this people and not a conceptual government will nevertheless be established, there are lessons from the fire that is not yet under control.
Ignition or no ignition, we live in a time of extreme and frequent natural events.
Just yesterday we sent aid to Greece, and here the foreign minister came down from the line to Warsaw for a moment and tried to coordinate assistance from Greece to Israel in putting out the fire in the Jerusalem mountains.
This is another simulation of extreme events and disaster in the event of a war in which the home front in Israel is attacked.
It is worth remembering the high-rise building in Miami.
It took rescuers three weeks to deal with the crash site.
One building!
The event, which takes place in the area of Ramat Raziel, Tzova, Shuva, coming from Mevaseret Zion, and in the east - Even Sapir, Ein Kerem and the moshavim Aminadav and Ora - requires thought beyond the fire department.
A system of a kind of national guard is needed, which will be able to support regional councils, the logistics of evacuating localities, and also dealing with riots in the home front, as we have experienced in the last three months.
These are in fact spatial divisions, which can be easily established by bringing in soldiers who have been discharged from reserve service at a young age, into a military or semi-military framework.
They exist in huge numbers.
Their re-enlistment in a framework that supports the home front in emergencies should be with the cooperation of the military, but not necessarily by the military.
American humiliation in the eyes of the world in Kabul has a devastating effect on the Middle East.
Efi Eitam said that the very formation of the government, in collaboration with the Arab lists, seemed like a defeat in the war.
The ministers of this government react very slowly to events that would normally have jumped the leadership.
Localities have been evacuated, and the damage is not yet clear.
The mountains are burning - and not at sunset.
The government is off.
The main thing is that no settlements in Judea and Samaria were evacuated.