Following the heavy rain expected across the country on Wednesday and Thursday, Israel Fire and Rescue Commissioner Rabbi Tafsar Dedi Simchi is expected to issue an order prohibiting the lighting of bonfires in forests, parks and risk areas on Wednesday and Thursday, the days of Lag B'Omer celebrations.
The order, which prohibits the lighting of fires in forested areas and areas prone to risk, was issued due to concerns about fires breaking out due to the numerous fire centers throughout the country.
The fire department said: "It is important to emphasize that the rainy winter has brought abundant vegetation, and therefore care must be taken to light small, supervised fires only in designated places and in accordance with an order to be published.".
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Meron is also preparing for the extreme heat wave.
According to Yosef Schwinger, Director General of the National Center for the Development of Holy Places, in the face of the heat wave outside, one should take steps to personally stock up on water, despite the National Center's thorough preparations to absorb hundreds of thousands of immigrants to Meron.
""Although we prepared the area to absorb the masses, we scattered shade and made huge drinking systems available to the immigrants - each and every one must stock up on drinking water for fear of dehydration.".
All parking lots - those designated for private vehicles and those designated for those arriving by public transportation - were also equipped with water, service and convenience points, with the aim of giving immigrants to Meron the full opportunity to reach the Rashbi site with maximum comfort.
The National Center for the Development of Holy Places emphasizes that this year, for the first time, there will be 17 toilet buildings connected to sewage, water and electricity - a donation from an anonymous benefactor. The same benefactor even paid out of his own pocket for the special production of four expensive systems that provide filtered and pure water, cold and hot, to those who come to the festival, and can provide thousands of cups per hour.
The state-of-the-art systems will be placed in the convenience complexes that will be built near the shuttle stations in the parking lots.
The service rooms, connected to water and sewage, will be located on Highway 89, at the entrance to the moshav - Shaar Bezeq, at the entrance to the moshav - Shaar Tserkhaniya, and up the mountain, as well as adjacent to the new women's complexes.
Four tents were erected this year for the first time, each measuring hundreds of square meters, with the aim of allowing the women's aid to rest and refresh themselves, or to wait in the shade and in complete comfort before or after the ascent to Zion Rashbi.
Last year, the benefactor donated toilet buildings worth about two million shekels, and this year another benefactor added and sent 120,000 boxes of personalized breakfast cakes from New York to Israel.
The shipment, which will please the hearts of the masses, weighs approximately 20 tons and the cakes will be distributed at all the refreshment stations established by the Center for the Development of Holy Places.
