Smoke and the smell of fire hung heavy in the air. In 2010, a massive forest fire burned for four days on northern Israel’s Mount Carmel, claiming 44 lives and destroying around 12,000 acres, much of ...

A wildfire shut the main highway linking Tel Aviv to Jerusalem on Wednesday, sending at least a dozen people to the hospital ...

The feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, celebrated on July 16, was first instituted in the late 14th century in commemoration of the approval of the rule of the Carmelite Order a hundred years earlier.

Israel, too, has seen destructive, fatal forest fires. The most notorious was the one in December 2010 on Mount Carmel near Haifa. It spread quickly, consuming much of the Mediterranean forest ...