{"id":628454,"date":"2026-09-26T20:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T20:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/628454\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T20:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T20:26:08","slug":"arson-suspected-in-haruvit-forest-blaze-near-kiryat-malachi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/628454\/","title":{"rendered":"Arson suspected in Haruvit Forest blaze near Kiryat Malachi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fire broke out in the Haruvit Forest near Kiryat Malachi on Saturday, Maariv reported, with six <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-906027\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">firefighting aircraft<\/a> dispatched to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Ground-based fire and rescue teams also arrived on the scene to extinguish the blaze, which spread to the forest&#8217;s treetops after winds fanned it, Maariv reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Later on Saturday, KAN News reported that the fire had been brought under control, with arson suspected as the ignition source.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Firefighters acted decisively to tackle the intense fire in the temporary structure and conducted rapid searches that ruled out the presence of trapped people,&#8221; said Incident Commander Deputy Chief Shai Nehemia. &#8220;During the operation, crews rescued several <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/politics-and-diplomacy\/article-902405\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Torah<\/a> scrolls from the flames.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Several bystanders hurled insults and slurs at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/crime-in-israel\/article-909400\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">officers<\/a> working to maintain order and secure the area as firefighters worked to put out the fire, according to the Israel Police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fire broke out in the Haruvit Forest near Kiryat Malachi on Saturday, Maariv reported, with six firefighting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[28298,5210,104236,44795,85,46,84801,1158,284227,43],"class_list":["post-628454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-aircraft","tag-fire","tag-firefighter","tag-forest","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-israel-fire-and-rescue-authority","tag-israel-police","tag-kiryat-malachi","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}