Residents in all Tel Aviv-area cities were gradually permitted today to drink water from the tap, in some cases even without boiling it, after a local water crisis began last night. A blanket ban on drinking tap water in the area was issued shortly after 7 PM yesterday by the Health Ministry, causing a run on bottled water, juices, and sodas in neighborhood stores. At least one mineral water company in the Golan said that it increased production over the night by 40%. The contamination discovered in the water supply has been traced to the Israeli-Arab town of Taibe, but the investigation continues.
Residents of Gush Etzion arrived in nine security vehicles in Tel Aviv\'s HaTikvah quarter today, each with a 1,000-liter container of fresh water on board, and began distributing the water to the residents. A banner on the jeeps read, “From Gush Etzion to Gush Dan with love.” One of the \"water carriers\" told Arutz-7, \"Our message to Tel Aviv is that just as the Hebrew word for water is read the same from right to left and from left to right, but if one letter is removed, nothing remains - so too, our political situation: right, left, we\'re all the same, and we cannot allow any parts of our People to be removed from us.\"
Residents of Gush Etzion arrived in nine security vehicles in Tel Aviv\'s HaTikvah quarter today, each with a 1,000-liter container of fresh water on board, and began distributing the water to the residents. A banner on the jeeps read, “From Gush Etzion to Gush Dan with love.” One of the \"water carriers\" told Arutz-7, \"Our message to Tel Aviv is that just as the Hebrew word for water is read the same from right to left and from left to right, but if one letter is removed, nothing remains - so too, our political situation: right, left, we\'re all the same, and we cannot allow any parts of our People to be removed from us.\"