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Emergency services responded to dozens of flooding incidents across Israel on Saturday following heavy rainfall. Fire and rescue teams conducted multiple operations to extract residents from flooded homes and vehicles.

According to Walla, rescue operations were conducted in multiple locations including Netanya, where an elderly couple was rescued from a flooded home, Qiryat Onot and Even Yehuda, where residents were extracted from stranded vehicles, and Ramat Gan, where teams were called to a flooded underground car park.

Additional rescues were reported in Jerusalem, where a woman and a dog were extracted from a flooded house in the German Colony neighbourhood, and in Ashdod, where people were rescued from vehicles. The exact number of rescue operations and any reported casualties were not fully specified in the report.

Sources: Ynet, Walla, www.israelhayom.co.il, Times of Israel