The Israeli government has announced the forest fire in Haifa is now under control.
The fire that raged in Israel's north since Thursday is "over," fire and rescue services spokesman Yoram Levy confirmed this afternoon.
"From our perspective the fire is over, though we will work tomorrow to make sure no smaller outbreaks reoccur," Mr Levy said.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government is facing calls for resignations following the deaths of at least 41 people in the forest fire.
Politicians and commentators have demanded the resignation of some officials for failure to extinguish the fire that has burned 12,000 acres (5,000 hectares) of woodland, destroying millions of trees and dozens of homes.
Criticism also came from inside Mr Netanyahu's fractious ruling coalition. "We need to take stock nationally as to how we as such an advanced sophisticated state achieved such a resounding failure," welfare minister Yitzhak Herzog of the centre-left Labour Party said on Israel's Army Radio.
With Mr Netanyahu having made a visible effort to muster global aid and monitor efforts to fight the blaze at the weekend, most critics targeted interior minister Eli Yishai, whose job it is to oversee the firefighters.
Many demanded that Mr Yishai, of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party, a pivotal coalition partner in Mr Netanyahu's government, resign for inadequate preparation of the firefighting system, which has not been able to bring the blaze under control.
"In a proper country, after such a failure you simply go home," said Yaron Dekel, host of a popular Israel Radio talk show, naming both Yishai and the Israeli fire chief.
Mr Netanyahu convened his cabinet today in Tirat Carmel, a fire-stricken town, and he pledged to rebuild the area "in the quickest possible way."
A global effort to help Israel contain the fires went on, with Germany, Switzerland and Azerbaijan expected to join a dozen other nations that have already committed firefighting equipment.
Boaz Rakiya, a spokesman for Israeli firefighters, said 34 aircraft were in the skies above the Carmel ridge trying to quell the fires, which he said had already weakened.
Israel also chartered a Boeing 747 Supertanker, flown in from the United States today, and loaded it with 21,000 gallons of water and flame retardant to pour on the flames.
Help from unexpected quarters came from the occupied West Bank, where Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas dispatched three firetrucks and crew to the Haifa area, after a telephone chat with Mr Netanyahu yesterday.
An Israeli statement said Mr Abbas had expressed condolences to for the Israelis killed in the fire on Thursday. Most were prison guard trainees who had arrived to help evacuate 500 inmates from the Damon facility near Haifa.
In contrast, Ismail Haniyeh, the Islamist Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip, a territory partly blockaded by Israel, said the fire was "a punishment by God" against the Jewish state.
Mr Netanyahu defended Israel's need for outside assistance to cope with the fire. "We all get help from others. It's a part of our existence as a global village," he said yesterday.
He also asked the state comptroller to investigate "the preparedness and handling" of the fire, a statement from his office said today.
Two teenagers suspected of starting the fire through negligence were brought to court to extend their remand on Thursday. Both were accused of having failed to extinguish a camp fire which led to the conflagration, police said.