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The death toll of flash floods has risen to 12, according to local media, and forced to evacuate more then 4,000 tourists from the ancient city of Petra.
Jordan, including Petra, and the searches for missing people continues.
Government spokeswoman Jumana Ghneimat and civil defense officials say the death toll rose on Saturday, after another body was found in the Madaba region of the capital of Amman. Six people are known to have died there.
Hundreds of Petra visitors run through the narrow canyon leading to the Treasury, Petra's main attraction.
The visitors were taken to safe areas before flash floods of the mountainous city of its carved rock ruins, government spokeswoman Ghneimat said.
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"Our embassy in Tel Aviv contacted the Israeli foreign ministry for information on the identities of the Israelis," said Petra.
Authorities declared a state of emergency in the Red Sea port of Aqaba further south as far as the beginning of the afternoon.
A major highway that Amman links with the south was also closed. The government announced the closure of universities and schools on Saturday and the mosques were opened to shelter by the floods.
Two weeks ago, 21 people, mainly children, died after they were swept away in flash floods on school in the Dead Sea region, in one of the country's worst natural disasters in decades.
Politicians and members of the public criticized the emergency services, saying they had been unprepared, and two were forced to resign after a parliamentary committee found negligence.
