"It looked like a cloud, but it was very, very low," Simon Abraham, who saw the storm approaching from the Azrieli Towers area, explained.
When Abraham showed it to other people in the area, they thought it was a fire. "I explained that I'd seen this before in Dubai. It's just going to be very uncomfortable."
Facebook users from the center of the country reported that the storm affected areas from Hadera to Ashdod.Ilanit Chernik contributed to this report.