Mer än 17.000 människor har evakuerats från 15 samhällen och 5.000.000 träd har förstörts.
Myndigheterna är nu försiktigt optimistiska och hoppas att branden kunde vara under kontroll idag, söndag.
Inte alla är glad över den hjälp Israel får för att släcka branden. I arabisk media kritiseras Egypten och Jordanien för sin insats och det finns de som glädjer sig över katastrofen.
'Carmel fire in most stable state since blaze broke out'
Firefighter spokesman says will take days before fire put out; international aircraft resume operations to put out flames; five million trees destroyed across more than 12,000 acres of scorched land.
Nearly half of Carmel forest destroyed by blaze
Officials said Saturday that it could take dozens of years for all of the area destroyed by the fire to be rehabilitated.The 50,000 dunams that have been consumed by flames represent just under half of the 115,000 dunam Carmel forest reserve, which is managed by the Nature and Parks Authority (NPA) and also includes Jewish National Fund/Keren Kayemet L’Israel (JNF/KKL) land.
Grateful prime minister hails international response
Netanyahu calls help Israel received from other nations "heartwarming"; Greek and Turkish pilots fly together in flame-filled skies.
Northern blaze delights many in the Arab world
Many Arabs also strongly condemned Egypt and Jordan for agreeing to help in extinguishing the blaze, according to Arab media outlets.
“May Allah punish all Arabs who helped put down the fire."
“This is the right time for Iran. If one fire has caused panic in the Zionist entity, where are Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Hassan Nasrallah? And where is Syria? One rocket could set thousands of fires.”
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