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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/police-chief-dies-after-forest-fire.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Forest fires in Israel have claimed 42 lives (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-police-chief-dies-after-forest-fire.jpg" alt="Forest fires in Israel have claimed 42 lives (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>Israel&#8217;s top policewoman, who had clung to life for four days after her patrol car was trapped in a burning Israel forest, has died.</p>
<p>Ahuva Tomer was driving behind a bus of prison guards rushing to evacuate a nearby jail last week when both the bus and her vehicle were engulfed in flames.</p>
<p>Her death raises the number of people killed by the wildfire to 42.</p>
<p>Ms Tomer headed the police department in Haifa, Israel&#8217;s third-largest city.</p>
<p>The 52-year-old became a symbol of the fire&#8217;s victims after a TV reporter interviewed her, just minutes before she set out on what became her last mission.</p>
<p>Israel declared the blaze under control, and police said only one isolated fire remained.</p>
<p>The fire which killed Soviet-born Ms Tomer, a Deputy Commander, has generated much soul-searching in Israel about the state of the country&#8217;s leadership, because firefighters had long warned that the neglected state of their operation was a recipe for disaster.</p>
<p>Hours after the blaze broke out on Thursday, fire crews ran out of firefighting chemicals. And firefighters in Israel &#8211; a country renowned for its sophisticated air force &#8211; did not have a single firefighting plane in their possession.</p>
<p>Israel was forced to appeal to other countries to send planes and material to put out the raging blaze.</p>
<p>Israel&#8217;s vulnerability prompted critics to ask whether the nation&#8217;s leaders could cope with far more serious challenges, like rocket attacks from Iranian-backed militants or a nuclear-armed Iran.</p>
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