Israelis enjoy warm weather ahead of summer-like week
Temperatures are rising and hundreds of thousands of people took advantage of that to go out to nature and hike.
Hundreds of thousands of Israelis took advantage of the unusually warm weather on Saturday to go out to nature and enjoy the bloom.
Atop the Hermon Mountain, visitors enjoyed excellent conditions for skiing.
About 120,000 Israelis visited parks and nature reserves across the country. The hotspots for visitors were the Banias nature reserve, the Tel Afe and Ein Afek nature reserves, Caesarea, the Beit Guvrin national park, Masada and the Eshkol National Park.
Thousands visited water sites, like the Tanur Waterfall at the Ayun Stream Nature Reserve and other streams in the Upper Galilee, and came to watch the blossoming that has begun in the area.
Kibbutz Kfar Giladi is marking 100 years to its foundation and has organized activities for the general public in celebration.
After several weeks of anemone bloom in southern Israel, the red flowers began popping up in northern Israel as well. KKL held an activity for the general public at the anemone forest near Highway 65, an area known as the Megiddo Airport. Visitors could also enjoy the cyclamen bloom in the Migdal HaEmek forest as well.
Thousands also visited Agamon Hula, and the surrounding area.
Meanwhile in southern Israel, the "Darom Adom" (Red South) festival continued, with events held at the Be'eri Forest, the Shokeda Forest and the Dvira Forest. KKL guides conducted tours at the Adullam Grove Nature Reserve.
Traffic police reported heavy traffic on some roads in southern Israel and on the roads around Mount Hermon.
The pleasant warm weather experienced on Saturday will continue into a week of summer-like temperatures. Sunday will continue being warm, with no significant change in temperatures, while a 2-3 degrees Celsius rise will be noted on Monday. The height of the heat wave will be on Wednesday-Friday, when temperatures are expected to go up to 10 degrees Celsius above average (meaning, around 30 degrees in Tel Aviv, 32 in Be'er Sheva).
Raanan Ben-Zur and Matan Tzuri contributed to this report.
