Ynet meteorologist Boaz Dayan explained that this is the result of a cold front passing through moderate to heavy cloud cover over the city. "This is extremely heavy hail," said a resident named Liron. "All of a sudden, it began raining and hailing." Resident Dov Ayalon said that "cars got stuck in the gathering waters…In addition, sewage systems also overflowed."Įxtremely heavy hail (Photo: Gil Yohanan) Warm, even," recounted Jerusalem resident Moshe Vilner. A novel drug therapy which could potentially be used to treat ovarian cancer among other types of cancer is being. "It's hard to imagine that, only a few hours ago, it was warm and sunny. Australian researchers make promising development in new cancer treatment. Someone here told me that, even in the winter, he can't recall having seen a storm like this. Natanel Feldman, who was in the Old City when the storm broke said, "the central street is totally flooded. Police forces came to the rescue of several area residents trapped in their vehicles. A number of houses in the Wadi Joz neighborhood of East Jerusalem were similarly affected. Two monks were evacuated by rescue forces from the Gat Shmanim Church, which flooded. The wet weather caused a sinkhole on a main thoroughfare in the city. Main streets flooding (Photo: Haim Feldman)
Other tunnels in the area, leading to and from Ma'aleh Adumim were also blocked off.
Several streets were flooded and subsequently closed to traffic, including the tunnel to Mt. City residents told Ynet of torrential downpours and heavy hail – definitely not summer weather in Israel. The official ceremony to mark the 40 year anniversary of the unification of Jerusalem was canceled, Wednesday afternoon, due to an unexpected storm.
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