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Avichai Stern

Election campaign billboards featuring Yashar party chairman Gadi Eisenkot, right, and Likud party chairman Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu alongside opposition leaders are displayed along a roadside in the northern city of Haifa, ahead of Israel’s upcoming election, October 17, 2026. (Sharon Leibel/Flash90)
October 23, 2026, 12:27 am
Netanyahu and Eisenkot in dead heat five days before election, final ToI poll shows
Most say they want Netanyahu to resign if he can’t form government; Eisenkot gets mixed reception at Western Wall; Kiryat Shmona mayor said to reluctantly appear in Netanyahu video
By Tal Schneider, Ariela Karmel, Emanuel Fabian, Lazar Berman and ToI Staff
Kiryat Shmona Mayor Avichai Stern, center front, holds a sign that reads 'Ceasefire = emboldening of Hezbollah,' as he and other residents of the northern city protest outside the US embassy building in Jerusalem on April 19, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 28, 2026, 2:52 pm
Northern officials, residents denounce Lebanon truce: ‘Stop using our kids as sitting ducks’
Council head says decision-makers should move north with their families to see the reality; security cabinet member Regev concedes situation is more of a ‘porous ceasefire’
By ToI Staff
Residents of Kiryat Shmona protest against the ceasefire with Hezbollah outside the United States embassy in Jerusalem, April 19, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)
April 19, 2026, 7:33 pm
Kiryat Shmona residents protest Lebanon ceasefire outside US embassy in Jerusalem
Northern municipality goes on strike, keeping education system and non-essential services closed, accusing government of abandoning the much-bombarded city in Hezbollah crosshairs
By ToI Staff and Diana Bletter
Israeli security forces gather at the site of a Hezbollah missile strike that targeted a bus in the northern Israeli border town of Kiryat Shmona on March 23, 2026. (Photo by Jalaa MAREY / AFP)
March 26, 2026, 12:51 pm
Anger mounts in northern communities as Netanyahu urges residents stay put
Northern municipal leaders lambaste state’s response to relentless Hezbollah rockets that are sending inhabitants fleeing; Netanyahu tells city chiefs to prevent the migration
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Smoke at the site of reported Israeli artillery shelling of a Hezbollah target in the Lebanese village of Yohmor, in response to earlier rocket fire on Metula, March 22, 2025. (Rabih Daher/AFP)
March 22, 2025, 11:12 am
6 rockets fired from Lebanon at Metula; IDF airstrikes hit dozens of Hezbollah sites
3 rockets intercepted, 3 fall short in Lebanon; Hezbollah denies it fired; some Metula residents leave town; several killed in Israeli strikes; IDF: It’s Lebanon’s job to uphold ceasefire
By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies
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