The snow on the way to the capital:
The Jerusalem municipality is preparing for the snow that is expected to pile up in the city tomorrow night, and the possibility is being considered that the corona testing and vaccination complexes will be closed until the storm passes.
The Jerusalem municipality told "Israel Today" that "due to the stormy weather and the high chance of snow, there will be an assessment of the situation whether to open the centers. Notification will be given upon decision."
Snow is expected to fall between Wednesday and Thursday in the mountains of Judea and Samaria, and the various authorities are already preparing for this. The Binyamin Regional Council is preparing for the snow that will fall in the high places, and the head of the council, Israel Ganz, has instructed to prepare to respond in localities to emergencies and power and service malfunctions. Accordingly, this week the Shefa Division and the Council's Defense Division are working to prepare for the opening of roads in the localities, setting up tractors to level the snow and distributing salt supplies between the various centers. Preparatory meeting between all parties, including the police, the Electric Company and the IDF.
At the same time, the Benjamin Council is also preparing for the beautiful side of the white flakes and preparing for the absorption of snow tourism.
The tourism department of the council will tomorrow complete the distribution of 100 snow sleds to the high localities and will invite all residents of Israel to reach the snow centers where you can ski and spend time.
The localities where it is expected to snow in Binyamin and pile up nicely are Psagot, Ofra, Kochav Yaakov, Tel Zion, the localities of Gush Shilo, Ali, Givat Assaf, Haresha, Ma'ale Lavona and Givon Hadasha.
Armored soldiers in the Hermon area, Photo: Eyal Margolin / Ginny
The Gush Etzion Regional Council is also preparing for snow.
According to the updated forecast snow is expected to pile up in the high localities, accompanied by strong winds and very low temperatures.
The council began preparations together with all the parties - the IDF, the Israel Police and Netivei Israel - for each scenario, and distributed salt to localities to maintain open axes. The decision to hold the studies will be made according to the development of the storm.
The snow is expected to return tomorrow to the northern Golan and the Upper Galilee, and the northern localities and Safed are waiting for the heavy snow that is expected to fall.
The Safed municipality is preparing for the city to be painted white and the roads to be blocked.
The mayor, Shuki Ohana, has announced a general recruitment of emergency officials.
Levels level on alert
In the Golan, the snow also fell yesterday until noon, but life went on as usual, except for public transportation, which began operating only towards noon.
The levels operated in the axes in the northern Golan and in the area about five centimeters of snow fell.
Today, the professionals of the Golan Regional Council will gather to check the readiness of the situation room.
It is estimated that tomorrow morning and during the day heavy snow will fall, this time piling to a height of tens of centimeters.
The fear in the Golan is from hikers who will try to reach the snow during the storm and get stuck in the arteries.
The Hermon site will open to visitors tomorrow.
The snow level on the lower cable car is 70 cm and on the top the snow is piled up to a meter high. The site allows entry only by prior arrangement on the Hermon website. That will allow for a good surfing season.
Hikers near Majdal Shams, Photo: Eyal Margolin / Ginny
Meanwhile, the Palestinian Authority in the Hebron governorate has declared full readiness to deal with the storm that is expected to hit the area on Wednesday and Thursday.
As part of this, the authorities were equipped with bulldozers and snow plows.
Although the slight rise in temperatures will also be felt today in Nablus, it will still be very cold in the morning and during the day high clouds and southerly winds are expected.
As a result, as a result of the continued winds coming from northeastern Europe to the Mediterranean region, the barometric depression will reach the country on Wednesday, bringing rain and even snow in areas higher than 800 meters above sea level.
It appears that between Wednesday evening and Thursday morning there will be the greatest chance of snow in the Hebron area.
Today: A respite from the rains
Today the weather is expected to be light to partly cloudy, there will be a slight rise in temperatures and a temporary respite from the rains is expected.
At night the rain will resume in the north of the country and snow will fall on Mount Hermon.
The weather system, which has been given the Cypriot name "Alfis" from the list of weather events, will be felt in full force tomorrow - then it will be rainy and stormy.
Heavy rains will fall in the north and center of the country, accompanied by thunderstorms and hail.
There is a fear of floods in the coastal plain, in the lowlands and in the streams, in the Negev your father will be and there may be sandstorms.
Flooding on Road 20, Photo: Yehoshua Yosef
From noon the rain will also spread to the Negev and there is a risk of flooding.
It will snow on Mount Hermon and in the northern Golan Heights.
In the afternoon, particularly cold air will penetrate the country, and snow will begin to fall in the Galilee mountains. In the evening, the snow is also expected to spread to the central mountains, which are more than 700 meters high, including Jerusalem. From the north of the country to the Negev.
Efrat Forsher, Idan Avni, Yuri Yalon and Shachar Kleiman participated in the preparation of the article
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