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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 620

Galilee

Doaa Hmade (right), volunteer with the Home Front Command and Tamra municipality, stands on the street in Tamra where a Iranian ballistics missile struck a house, killing four women on June 15, 2025. (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel)
June 15, 2025, 3:09 pm
Deadly Iranian missile ‘brought out the hatred’ inside Israel, Tamra residents say
Coexistence tested after video shows Jewish Israeli man cheering projectile that killed four in the Arab Israeli community near Haifa
By Diana Bletter
'Speeches Against Despair' will be performed at the Israel Festival on July 3, 2025 with actor Guri Alfi and Eli Haviv, actress Noa Koler, musician Noga Erez, actor Norman Issa, actress Maya Landsmann and others (Credit: Shir Greenblatt)
June 7, 2025, 5:32 am
Reflecting the times, Israel Festival to be held in north and south, as well as Jerusalem
64th edition of annual cultural event focuses on performances that reflect the ongoing war; no visiting performers in festival that used to host international participants
By Jessica Steinberg
Prof. Jacob Ashkenazi from the Kinneret College on the Sea of Galilee as he cleans an inscription found in Horvat Hesheq, between Carmiel and Maalot, in 2018. (Prof. Jacob Ashkenazi)
April 20, 2025, 9:02 am
In early Christian Holy Land, private churches rose as acts of faith — and displays of power
During 4th-7th century CE, new research shows, Christian elites built numerous private churches, while Jewish donors appeared to pool their resources in a communal synagogue
By Rossella Tercatin
Dr. Jodi Magness from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as she excavates at Huqoq in the Galilee. Magness and her team began excavating the site in 2011 and concluded their fieldwork in 2023. (Jim Haberman)
March 15, 2025, 7:22 am
Could 1,600-year-old Galilee synagogue rewrite history of Jewish life under the Romans?
New radiocarbon dating at grand Huqoq sanctuary near Tiberias puts its construction after the empire embraced Christianity, suggests Jews in Holy Land still enjoyed ‘relative prosperity’
By Rossella Tercatin
Druze people wave near a border barrier in the northern Israeli village of Majdal Shams, as buses transporting visiting Druze men from Syria arrive, on March 14, 2025. (Jalaa MAREY / AFP)
March 14, 2025, 2:10 pm
‘New chapter’: Syrian Druze clerics enter Israel for first pilgrimage since 1948
60 clerics pray at tomb of Nabi Shuaib, the most important Druze religious site, are set to meet leader of Israeli community; other Syrian Druze strongly oppose trip
By AFP and ToI Staff
Left: The intentionally engraved core found at the Manot Cave in a high-resolution photograph and 3D model (Photo by E. Ostrovsky and drawing by M. Smelansky, 3-D models by E. Paixao and L. Schunk). Right: The blade found at the Amud Cave, whose marks were created by casual abrasion. (Erella Hovers)
February 10, 2025, 9:31 am
Prehistoric artifacts from Israel prove our ancestors made art 100,000 years ago
New study shows Middle Paleolithic people intentionally decorated stone tools, offering evidence that abstract thinking began earlier than 50,000 years ago as previously believed
By Rossella Tercatin
A bronze hoard, composed of civic coins of ‘Akko-Ptolemais, was recently found in the excavations at the Hellenistic site Khirbet el-Eika. The find was published in January 2025. (Tal Rogovski)
February 5, 2025, 3:38 pm
Hoard of coins illuminates triumphant Maccabee campaign in 2nd-century-BCE Israel
A rare intact Hellenistic estate at Khirbet el-Eika in Eastern Galilee was likely abandoned by its inhabitant as Yonatan Maccabee and his army drew nearer, new research shows
By Rossella Tercatin
During the 2018 season excavation at the Huqoq synagogue in north Israel, archaeologists uncovered a hoard of medieval coins. (Tal Rogovski)
January 22, 2025, 4:35 pm
Magnificent hoard of gold and silver coins sheds unprecedented light on medieval Israel
New research examines artifacts found in 2018 in two vessels next to the synagogue at Huqoq, in an excavation led by Prof. Jodi Magness; its findings could rewrite history books
By Rossella Tercatin
A man unloads construction materials in front of a damaged building in Metula, November 27, 2024. (David Cohen FLASH90)
December 22, 2024, 10:38 pm
NIS 12 billion over 5 years: Israel’s plan for rebuilding the north comes into focus
While Minister Ze’ev Elkin claims, ‘We’ll build even bigger in the future,’ head of the Northern Contractors Organization counters: ‘There are simply not enough workers available’
By Zev Stub
Dean Sweetland walks past a warehouse that was hit by a rocket fired from Lebanon, in Kibbutz Malkiya in northern Israel, November 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
November 30, 2024, 10:16 am
Northerners are wary of returning to border communities: ‘The ceasefire is rubbish’
Many residents of battered border kibbutz communities no longer have homes, others are fearful that Hezbollah will return to threaten them
By AP and ToI Staff
The scene of a rocket impact in Petah Tikva, November 24, 2024 (Magen David Adom)
November 24, 2024, 11:24 am
Several Israelis hurt by relentless Hezbollah fire as 250 rockets fired at north, center
Woman wounded when car catches fire after rocket impact in Petah Tikvah; residential buildings damaged in Haifa amid heavy barrage; IDF strikes in Beirut
By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and AFP
Tag Meir member Yossi Saidov, left, apologizes to Hanaa Younis, center, and Najlaa Awad, right, for the racist comments on social media about their sister Safaa Awad, killed by November 18 Hezbollah rocket fire on November 21, 2024. (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel)
November 22, 2024, 12:15 pm
After Hezbollah rocket kills Muslim woman, Arab town is hit with explosion of racism
In Galilee town of Shfar’am, the family of Safaa Awad is dismayed by some Jews’ racist comments on social media after her death; members of Tag Meir come to offer apologies
By Diana Bletter
Muslim women working on computers (illustrative photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
August 28, 2024, 6:02 pm
Innovation Authority invests NIS 35m to lure tech jobs to Negev and Galilee
Addressing challenges posed by the months-long war, funds are allocated to help tech firms open new branches and hire local talent in the north and south
By Sharon Wrobel
Dikla Nasimi listens to her son Eliron at their home in Avdon on June 29, 2024. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)
July 1, 2024, 2:03 pm
Israelis from town 2 miles from Lebanon forced to return home after running out of funds
After a hotel stay subsidized by a tapped-out Christian organization, Avdon’s 600 residents are refused state housing provided to others within the same distance from border
By Canaan Lidor
Smoke rises after rockets fired from Lebanon hit an open area in Mount Meron, northern Israel, May 15, 2024. (David Cohen/Flash90)
May 22, 2024, 1:38 pm
Authorities close Mount Meron ahead of Lag B’Omer over Hezbollah rocket threat
City of Tiberias also blocks access to Rabbi Akiva gravesite fearing too many pilgrims will throng shrine over holiday
By Canaan Lidor, Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
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