(IsraelNN.com) According to a study conducted by Professor Noam Halfon of Haifa University, there has been no significant change in the amount of rainfall in Israel over the past several decades.  After measuring rainfall in various locations throughout the country for two years, Halfon concluded that the amount of rainfall and the time in which it fell were approximately the same in recent years as in the course of the past several decades.

Halfon’s research contradicted predictions that Israel would soon begin experiencing severe drought due to global warming.  In fact, he said, Israel’s longest dry spell was in the 1950s and early 1960s.  Halfon explained that the public often perceived the weather as changing and becoming more extreme due to media coverage of extreme weather events.