Israeli soldiers help save people from flood

Israel and Palestine have had the heaviest downfall in the last 9 years, causing floods. Ground transportation in Tel Aviv was paralyzed and forecasters expect snowing in Jerusalem.

Israeli soldiers are rescuing people in the Jewish state and the Western Bank of Jordan.

30 Arab children were saved from a school bus that was washed away by the flood in Jenin in the Palestinian National Authority. An Israeli helicopter saved 10 people at an Arab village in the north of Israel, press secretary of the military Avital Leibovich said on Twitter.