(Times of Israel) With Israel facing its fifth winter of depleted rainfall, thousands of Jews assembled Thursday at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem to pray together for rain, led by the chief rabbis of Israel, David Lau and Yitzhak Yosef. Israel received only 45% of its average rainfall for September through November. In four of the last eight years, the Chief Rabbinate has held prayer rallies for rain. In February the Sea of Galilee reached its lowest level in nearly a hundred years. Although Israel can produce all the drinking water it needs from five desalination plants on the Mediterranean coast, the drought has seriously impacted agriculture.
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