After a rare snowstorm dumped more than a foot of snow on Jerusalem, roads leading to the city were clogged by unprecedented traffic jams caused by Israelis who wanted to see the snow. The swarm of sightseers created bumper-to- bumper traffic extending some 30 miles from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
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