The Green War: Saving the Galilee's Forests

Visitors to the north after the war is over will have trouble recognizing what was once some of the region's most beautiful scenery.

Tens of thousands of dunams of woodland and large nature reserves like Mount Meron and the Birya Forest have been burned by Katyusha rockets.

With firefighters busy protecting the region's communities, much was saved by the ten pilots of a crop-dusting company who attacked the fires again and again with fire retardant.