The fire consumed an entire forest, but beneath the soot lies the truly great disaster: A journey following the fires on Highway 1

The dominant colors in the Latrun Valley are black, gray, white - and ironically also pink, the color of the fire retardants that were dumped there in an attempt to put out the fire. • On a tour with Matan Nachum, the coordinator of the Society for the Protection of Nature in the area, the shocking ecological disaster that struck the Jerusalem forests last week is visible from every corner: the pines have turned into sooty wooden pillars, and on…