Israeli Forest Fire

The flames encircled Ed Sernoff's house in this Israeli artists' village in the Carmel hills near the northern port city of Haifa, licking a corner of the stone structure and cracking a window but otherwise leaving it intact. A small child's playhouse survived in the middle of the mostly charred garden, but the chalet-style home that Mr. Sernoff's ...

The flames encircled Ed Sernoff's house in this Israeli artists' village in the Carmel hills near the northern port city of Haifa, licking a corner of the stone structure and cracking a window but otherwise leaving it intact. A small child's playhouse survived in the middle of the mostly charred garden, but the chalet-style home that Mr. Sernoff's ...