Rains heavier than any inhabitants of Jerusalem can remember in the last 20 years fell here during the last 24 hours and washed out reads between Jerusalem and Hebron and Jericho. The 24-hour rainfall was estimated as being twice the rainfall of the entire 1947-48 winter season.
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