February 16, 2016
11:56 pm

Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah speaks during a rare public appearance, in the suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon in November 2013. (file photo credit: AP/Bilal Hussein)

Nasrallah threatens to bomb chemical facility, kill thousands of Israelis

Head of Lebanese terror group says strike on Haifa ammonia storage facility would have impact similar to nuclear attack

By Tamar Pileggi

February 5, 2016
9:50 am

Backpackers hanging out at the Little Tel-Aviv hostel (Courtesy Little Tel-Aviv Hostel)

Budget travelers get a warm welcome at Israel’s newest hostels

Inviting prices and accommodations are on offer at five different locations in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa

By Eliana Block

February 3, 2016
8:40 pm

Pollution in the northern Israeli city of Haifa in April 2015. (Basel Awidat/Flash90)

Knesset rejects proposal to probe Haifa pollution

While study released this week suggests link between heavy industry and birth defects, Health Ministry data shows infants in area have average head sizes

By Adiv Sterman

February 3, 2016
2:29 pm

Staff and volunteers of the Hillary Clinton Burlington, Iowa campaign field office cheer as Hillary Clinton speaks on the television at the Boogaloo Cafe on February 1, 2016 in Burlington, Iowa. (AFP / Michael B. Thomas)

From Des Moines to de moans

It’s been a full day since candidates left Iowa for New Hampshire, but Israeli journalists finally get a crack at caucus results, declaring Trump, the establishment and anyone who actually thought Iowa mattered as the real losers

By Joshua Davidovich

February 2, 2016
4:19 pm

Pollution in the northern Israeli city of Haifa, April 15, 2015 (Basel Awidat/Flash90)

A shrill cry by the bay

Panic grips the Israeli press as an air pollution study in Haifa sets off a tidal wave of concern about health risks

By Ilan Ben Zion

February 1, 2016
10:21 pm

View of Haifa under heavy smog (Avishag Shaar Yashuv/Flash90)

Minister vows ‘drastic’ measures after Haifa pollution report

Research finds infants in area have smaller-than-average heads; environmental protection chief says state may shutter factories if second study confirms figures

By Tamar Pileggi

February 1, 2016
6:14 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, on January 31, 2016. (Kobi Gideon / GPO)

Netanyahu: Abbas unwilling to give up on Haifa, Jaffa

PM charges that Palestinian leader won’t compromise; says controversial NGO bill is ‘democratic’ and ‘will pass’

By Marissa Newman

February 1, 2016
1:35 am

Infant disorders linked to pollution in Haifa Bay, says new study

Smaller-than-average heads, low weight, add to earlier cancer findings; government wants more oil refineries, says mayor

By Sue Surkes

January 23, 2016
3:30 pm

Holocaust survivor Yisrael Kristal, confirmed in March 2016 as the oldest man in the world. (Courtesy of family)

Guinness confirms Israeli Holocaust survivor, 112, may be world’s oldest man

Yisrael Kristal of Haifa needs documentation that he was born on September 15, 1903, which could be a challenge

By AFP

January 22, 2016
1:21 am

Haifa Holocaust survivor, 112, may be world’s oldest man

But Yisrael Kristal could have difficulties officially confirming his age

By JTA

January 21, 2016
8:08 pm

Gennady Galkin arrives to a court hearing at the Haifa Magistrates Court Janaury 20, 2016, Gelkin was arrested in Berlin on Wednesday after being a suspect of murdering Edward Rothberg, 25, at a club in Haifa in 1998. Photo by Basel Awidat/Flash90.

18 years later, student’s murder looks set to be solved

Suspected killer of Edward Rothberg brought back to Israel after living in Berlin under assumed name

By Sue Surkes

January 14, 2016
3:21 pm

Ibrahim Mahmoud standing in Baharka refugee camp in Iraq’s northern Kurdish region after fleeing Islamic State militants, January 11, 2016. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)

Palestinian refugee loses new home to IS

Fleeing Islamic State brutality, Ibrahim Mahmoud is on the move seven decades after leaving his home in Haifa

By Bram Janssen

January 12, 2016
4:55 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu aboard the new submarine 'Rahav' at the Israeli navy base in Haifa, on January 12, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

PM, president turn out to welcome Israel’s newest submarine

$400 million INS Rahav, which arrives in Haifa from Germany, said to expand Israel’s purported nuclear ‘second-launch’ capabilities

January 12, 2016
11:27 am

The INS Rahav, Israel's newest submarine, sets off from the German port of Kiel towards Haifa, December 17, 2015. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

Israel set to welcome its newest nuclear-capable submarine

INS Rahav, which arrives in Haifa from Germany Tuesday, expands Israel’s purported ‘second-launch’ naval capabilities to five subs

By Times of Israel staff

January 10, 2016
11:23 pm

An Israeli police officer at the scene of a public bus bombing in the northern Israeli city of Haifa, Wednesday, March 5, 2003. A Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up aboard the crowded bus, killing at least 17 people and injuring dozens. (Ronen Lidor/ Flash90)

Bereaved families fight parole for accomplice in bus bombing

Mounir Rajbi, convicted of assisting suicide bomber in March 2003 Haifa blast, set to face committee on Tuesday