The Minister of Interior Aryeh Deri instructed the Population and Immigration Authority Director-General, Prof. Shlomo Mor Yosef, to allow residents whose homes were burned down in the recent wave of fires to receive new documents for free.
“Anyone whose house was burned and documents of the Interior Ministry were also burned, will have to report it and the documents will be issued free of charge for him,” Dewri said.
Between Thursday and Shabos, firefighting teams extinguished 1,023 fires, caused by electrical issues, Lag Ba’omer bonfires – and arson.
The fires destroyed at least fifty homes, as well as nearly 2,000 acres of forest. The fire in Mevo Modi’im, the community hit hardest by the flames, is believed to have been caused by arson.
{Matzav.com Israel News}
