Israel, Cyprus, and Greece have signed a cooperation agreement in 2016 to build a wide-ranging system of emergency cooperation between the countries, including firefighting and handling of natural disasters.

Continuing the Israeli tradition of international assistance in the face of natural disasters, firefighters from the Jewish state helped battle massive fires in Macedonia. After Macedonia declared a state of emergency earlier this month based on a heatwave accompanied by raging wildfires, Israeli firefighters heeded the call, heading to the Balkan nation to get the... Read more »