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Firefighters at the scene of a fire in an apartment in the northern city of Safed, May 25, 2019 (Basel Awidat/Flash90)
May 25, 2019, 11:10 pm
Toddler killed in apartment fire in northern city of Safed
Child’s four-year-old sibling suffers burns, 8 adults treated for smoke inhalation; country faces rash of blazes over several days amid severe heatwave
By TOI staff
Firefighters extinguish the remains of a fire in Kibbutz Harel, on May 24, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
May 25, 2019, 2:59 am
Wildfire near Beit She’an spreads across border into Jordan
Firefighters contain blaze in northern Jordan Valley in second day of raging wildfires, fed by tinder dry conditions; authorities suspect massive fire ignited by arsonists
By TOI staff
Commuters at the newly built Yitzhak Navon train station in Jerusalem, September 25, 2018. (Aharon Krohn/Flash90)
February 20, 2019, 10:31 am
‘Sick’ train drivers derail service amid spat over work hours
Israel Railways management accuses workers of ‘aggressive and unworthy conduct,’ as protest disrupts schedules in northern Israel
By Stuart Winer
Nir Distelfeld, Israel Antiquities Authority Theft Prevention Unit inspector, with the pair of limestone funerary busts, which were discerned by a hiker after early December heavy rains in the Beit She'an region. (Eitan Klein, Israel Antiquities Authority)
December 30, 2018, 2:35 pm
Two rare 1,700-year-old funerary busts unearthed in Beit She’an cemetery
After a rain, a local hiker discerned an unusual object popping out of the ancient graveyard: the only two such limestone statues — unique to the region — ever found in situ
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
A worker tries to get a calf that has collapsed to stand up at Tnuva's slaughterhouse in the northern city of Beit She'an, December 2012. (Animals Now)
November 30, 2018, 3:16 pm
Slaughterhouse managers convicted for urging beating, electrocution of calves
Judge says defendants in Tnuva case caused immense suffering to animals in order to speed up production and maximize profits
By Sue Surkes
Ex-Beit She'an mayor Jacky Levy (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons/Heichal Hakodesh)
November 15, 2018, 4:19 pm
Likud MK quits Knesset after being elected mayor of Beit She’an
Jacky Levy returns to his former post in northern city, will be replaced in parliament by Osnat Mark
By TOI staff
A protester blocking the convoy of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on October 6, 2018. (screen capture: Twitter)
October 7, 2018, 1:37 pm
Protester tackled in front of Netanyahu’s car says he doesn’t blame the guard
Former Shin Bet agent admits he may have scared the security detail when he stood in front of PM’s convoy wearing a backpack during an anti-corruption rally
By TOI staff
A protester blocking the convoy of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on October 6, 2018. (screen capture: Twitter)
October 7, 2018, 5:17 am
Flag-waving protester blocks Netanyahu’s car, is tackled by guard
Police reportedly considering charging former Shin Bet agent with harming an officer, disrupting traffic, after incident at anti-corruption demonstration in Beit She’an
By TOI staff
Mount Gilboa as seen from the construction site of the Maale Gilboa pumped-storage hydroelectricity plant in northern Israel. (YouTube screen capture)
July 13, 2018, 12:02 pm
Worker killed, two others hurt in tunnel collapse in north
Three men have been crushed to death in tunnel accidents at the Maale Gilboa electric plant construction site since 2015
By TOI staff
Yotam Arieli (right) and his uncle Idan Avidor with the Byzantine-era jug discovered in the Beit She'an National Park. (Shmuelik Armon)
January 30, 2018, 12:51 pm
Look what the rain swept in: Families find 1,500-year-old jug during hike
Discovered near the Beit She’an National Park, intact container likely used to hold wheat and legumes for burial ritual
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Tourists at Israel's Beit Sh'ean National Park test drive the Roman-era public latrine, March 2017. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/Times of Israel)
November 20, 2017, 8:21 pm
4 ancient toilets almost wiped from Israel’s history
Studying old thrones, researchers flush out ancient man’s past through what we’ve passed
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Jackals sit on a road in the mountains surrounding Jerusalem, August 4, 2008. (Haim Shohat/Flash90)
October 10, 2017, 1:47 pm
Jackal bites two Israelis in Jordan Valley kibbutz
Searches underway for animal to test for disease, after rabid specimen caught on Thursday
By Sue Surkes
Somjit, a Buddhist Thai worker at kibbutz Tirat Tzvi, harvests lulavs ahead of Sukkot, September 27, 2017. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
October 4, 2017, 8:34 am
Largest lulav-harvesting kibbutz has fronds in high places
Tirat Zvi has perfected the art of the palm frond, part of the lucrative Four Species industry that flourishes for one week out of the year, during the festival of Sukkot
By Melanie Lidman and Video by Luke Tress
Illustrative image of a swimming pool. (mailmyworkdd/iStock via Getty images)
September 19, 2017, 5:18 pm
2-year-old girl pulled from pool in Beit She’an dies
Despite 5 days of treatment, medical staff unable to save life of tot pulled from water at her babysitter’s home
By TOI staff
Transportation and Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz at a press conference held at the Ministry of Transport regarding the creation of an artificial island off the Gaza coast, which would contain a port, power and water desalination plants, and an airport, April 5, 2017 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
April 6, 2017, 12:50 am
Likud minister says US backs his transportation-based peace initiative
Yisrael Katz plans to connect Israel and the Palestinians with Jordan, the Gulf states and Iraq via an extended railroad network
By Raphael Ahren
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