The ceremony marking the end of rescue fire-fighting in Israel took place at the Hatzor air force base with the participation of 2 Ukrainian fire-fighting planes AN-32 of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine.

During the event Minister of public security Gilad Erdan on behalf of the Prime Minister of Israel B.Netanyahu expressed his gratitude to the Ukrainian rescuers. He also transmitted the letter and welcome address to Ambassador of Ukraine to Israel H.Nadolenko and the head of Ukrainian rescuers - Chief of aviation of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine I.Runayev.

During the ceremony the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko called I.Runayev and thanked him and crew members of 2 aircrafts for their work.