Tel Aviv [Israel], April 30 (ANI/TPS): As Israel sweltered in a heat wave, the Israel Meteorological Service said Thursday was the hottest April day recorded in the Greater Metropolitan area in 85 years. The IMS said today’s temperature of 40.7, measured at midday, was hotter than the 40.4 degrees measured in 1939. It added that similar records were broken in the communities of Yavne and Nitzan. Despite the weather, Israelis enjoying a week off for Passover headed off to the nation’s parks. The Nature and Parks Authority reported 55,000 people had entered the parks and nature reserves as of mi…