Directors of Israel's Seismological Institute met recently with Israel's Chief Rabbis and presented them with some grim predictions of possible earthquakes in Israel in the coming years. They told the rabbis that an earthquake on the scale of the Jericho earthquake of 1927 - estimated to have hit 6.25 on the Richter scale - could be expected. (Another strong earthquake hit the northern part of the country in 1837, devastating the town of Tzfat and leaving thousands dead.) Seismological Institute representatives have similarly met with the heads of other public bodies.
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Directors of Israel's Seismological Institute met recently with Israel's Chief Rabbis and presented them with some grim predictions of possible earthquakes in Israel in the coming years. They told the rabbis that an earthquake on the scale of the Jericho earthquake of 1927 - estimated to have hit 6.25 on the Richter scale - could be expected. (Another strong earthquake hit the northern part of the country in 1837, devastating the town of Tzfat and leaving thousands dead.) Seismological Institute representatives have similarly met with the heads of other public bodies.