Blazes in Rhodes have sparked biggest-ever fire evacuation in Greece; Israel sent air team to assist

Train service delayed due to damaged signaling equipment, with strong winds fanning flames; blaze also erupts at Biriya Forest in Upper Galilee

Woods are popular with hikers, cyclists and families; JNF ask people to avoid the area amid efforts to control flames

Blazes burn large swaths of land in France, Portugal, Spain and Greece; climate change blamed for intense heatwave set to break temperature records in Britain

Israeli firefighting planes dispatched to island after request from Turkish Cypriot authorities, amid warming ties between Jerusalem and Ankara

Authorities manage to gain control of blaze in Peace Forest after several hours and are now looking into possibility that it was an incident of arson

Announcement comes six months after blaze in Jerusalem hills; Bennett says: 'We're not waiting for the next disaster'

Aleppo pine widely used in JNF's forestation project is described by some as being 'like a gallon of petrol'; Bedouins see tree plantings as disrupting their farming livelihoods

Micha Harari's gallery, with 40 years of work, went up in flames in August; now he's filing a civil case against the fire service and local authority for failing to prepare

After the 2010 Carmel tragedy, Israel rebuilt its fire service bottom-up. But as last month’s Jerusalem Hills fire showed, firefighting can't make up for a failed prevention policy