we're in the golden heights and it is
really really cold
it's snowing
this week israel saw an unusual winter
storm that has almost completely covered
the entire golden heights
with a blanket of snow and even though
this is not as big as the monster storms
some of you are experiencing in other
places of the world
this much snow is very rare to see in
israel
it is so rare that many israelis from
all parts of the country flocked here to
the golan heights
to see this magical white powder and
when i say
israelis that of course includes Rhoda
and me, especially that we live in
Nazareth
which is only one hour drive from the
Golan Heights, so we just could not
miss the opportunity to see this
wow look how beautiful wow
that is so beautiful look at this
wow
how many people on the side are taking
pictures -look at this, it doesn't look
like we are in Israel does it?
it's like we're in a completely
different country because it never
snows, well, I shouldn't say never but
rarely snow is in this area
yeah, i've never seen it this full of snow
when we were in Norway
it didn't have that much snow on the
sides of the road, of course we were
there in October but
still ah this is so beautiful
look at this
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so even though a few roads were blocked
by the police for safety
most of the roads in the Golan Heights
were still open and
we were so surprised how fast they
cleared them, I mean it only took a few
hours, where'd they get the snow plow
machines?and then the trucks they
probably had them somewhere
-right -i've seen a few in Hermon
remember on Hermon, they have a few snow
plows but
not that many to clear out the whole
Golan Heights, so whoever had the idea to
keep a few snow plows
you know in the in the garage, here in Israel,
great job
that really helped this week very well
yeah
wow look how beautiful it is
look at the colors of the sky
there's red and there's blue
oh my
and it's so cool how you know you're
driving up north you were driving for an
hour and there was no snow, nowhere to be
seen
and you even get up to the Holan Heights
you go the ascend
and you get up in the Golan Heights
there's still nothing but green grass
and then suddenly you see snow and
everything is white
it's kind of weird because nowhere else
in the world we've seen that before
you go to cold countries, and just all
covered in snow -yeah
-or there is just no snow
but here it was like green grass and it
was flat, it wasn't like mountains and
snow covered, it was just flat green grass
and suddenly the green grass becomes
covered in snow and then it's just all
white
it's like you're driving on a plain
and suddenly half of the plain is green
and half of the plain
is white, it was pretty surreal -Yeah, pretty much like.
you start seeing patches of snow
and then
the whole thing is covered, that's so
cool it was very cool. Yeah let's
let's get out over here
oh there you have it folks frozen winter
land in israel
it is so freezing my hands are shaking
i think the camera is shaking from my
hands
everything is shaking we don't see this
it's like
strange to be very excited for snow but
where most of the world has it -all right
one last
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snowball
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oh
really hope you enjoyed this video if
you're from some warm country and you
didn't get to see snow this year
we hope this was a blessing to you
and we hope to see you next time
the best is yet to come amen
oh it's so frozen yeah
let's turn on the car oh
it's not a joke
uh
you found them
where were they
probably fell
i thought you were joking at first
what if it like got under somewhere
you know, like it fell
and got inside -yeah because we stepped
on every... it's pretty deep it's like a
couple of feet -we would have had to
look for hours
yeah you know we like i don't know just
keep on
digging -thank you lord -yeah -all right
let's go