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Golan Regional Council Deputy Head Yaakov Selavan, left, stands with Reut Tal-Levy, head of demographic growth in the Golan Heights, in a new neighborhood in Odem, on April 20, 2026. (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel)
May 9, 2026, 7:24 am
The quiet frontier? With minefields cleared, Golan Heights readies for construction boom
Despite local volatility, residents brace for speedy growth and bolstered infrastructure as part of recently approved 5-year plan allocating NIS 1 billion to develop area by 2030
By Diana Bletter
Workers are seen at a construction site in Katzrin, in the Golan Heights, January 6, 2025. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)
April 16, 2026, 3:30 pm
Government approves 5-year, billion-shekel plan to develop Golan, give it its 1st city
Minister says plan will turn Katzrin into a city and ‘bring in thousands of new families’; in meeting with local leaders, Netanyahu touted ‘massive development surge’
By Diana Bletter and ToI Staff
Hezi Razilov (Courtesy)
August 26, 2025, 10:42 pm
Hezi Razilov, 30: Security guard who penned poetry
Killed in southern Israel following Hamas’s October 7 attack
By ToI Staff
Tsahal, Salim and Max, three friends in Katzrin, on December 8, 2024. (Gavriel Fiske/Times of Israel)
December 9, 2024, 2:04 am
As Syrian regime falls next door, Golan town of Katzrin keeps calm and carries on
Residents of ‘The Capital of the Golan’ went about their business on Sunday, but some expressed uncertainty about the historical changes taking place a short car ride away
By Gavriel Fiske
Smoke billows from the site of an Israeli strike that targeted a Hezbollah site in the southern Lebanese village of Kfar Kila on August 21, 2024. (Rabih Daher/ AFP)
August 22, 2024, 11:58 am
IDF launches ‘extensive’ strikes against Hezbollah in 10 areas of southern Lebanon
Attacks follow day of rockets raining on Katzrin in Golan, wounding 1 and causing heavy damage; visiting site, Ben Gvir demands response ‘in most unequivocal, clearest way’
By Emanuel Fabian
A home in Katzrin on Israel's Golan Heights that was directly hit in a rocket attack from Lebanon, August 21, 2024. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)
August 21, 2024, 10:49 am
Israeli hurt in rocket barrage on Golan; Fatah official tied to Iran killed in Sidon strike
Some 50 rockets launched at Katzrin after IDF hits targets deep in Lebanon; killing of Khalil Makdah is first apparent strike targeting PA’s Fatah faction in Lebanon since October
By Emanuel Fabian
View of a large fire caused from rockets fired from Lebanon, near the northern town of Katzrin, June 2, 2024. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90
June 3, 2024, 4:06 pm
Hezbollah rockets spark fires burning 10,000 dunams of open areas in north
Nature and Parks Authority official says it will take years for local flora to repair itself after Sunday blaze destroyed parts of Yehudiya Forest Nature Reserve
By ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian
Illustrative: A policeman holds handcuffs. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
May 23, 2023, 2:21 pm
Two teenagers suspected of raping, extorting cash from woman, 40
Court remands suspects, 16; alleged victim claims one forced her to have sex with him at knifepoint, pair imprisoned her and her son in bomb shelter
By ToI Staff
Roman Zadorov arrives at his home in Katzrin after being acquitted in a retrial of the murder of Tair Rada at the court in Nazareth, March 30, 2023. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)
May 14, 2023, 5:42 pm
State drops appeal after Roman Zadorov acquitted of murdering teen girl
In March ruling, district court said it feared Zadorov was forced into falsely confessing to killing Tair Rada in 2006
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Multi-story residential buildings in Ashkelon, Israel, May 2022. (rglinsky via iStock by Getty Images)
April 20, 2023, 6:16 am
Housing snapshot: Home sales and rentals across Israel
The Times of Israel’s regular feature on what is happening in Israel’s property market right now
By Danielle Nagler
Illustrative: An ambulance at the Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital in Jerusalem, on November 5, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
April 5, 2023, 6:57 pm
4-year-old drowns in pool, hours before start of Passover
Medics fight in vain for over an hour to save child’s life; 30-year-old man drowns at Tel Aviv’s Charles Clore Beach hours later
By Michael Horovitz
Students from the Kinneret Academic college help bring the 62-pound lioness carving from Ein Nashut to their bus on March 1, 2023, in the Golan Heights. (courtesy Mordechai Aviam)
March 8, 2023, 10:32 am
Students on northern Israel field trip stumble onto 1,500-year-old lioness carving
Lucky group from the Kinneret Academic College led by Prof. Mordechai Aviam discovers basalt sculpture that likely adorned synagogue, and a rare 1,800-year-old coin, on same day
By Melanie Lidman
An aerial view of Yeruham in the southern Negev desert on February 1, 2022. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)
January 13, 2023, 6:23 am
Housing snapshot: Home sales and rentals across Israel
The Times of Israel’s regular feature on what is going on in Israel’s property market right now
By Danielle Nagler
Rabbi Ezra Sheinberg (left) leaves the Ma'asiyahu prison near Lod after serving seven-and-a-half years in prison for sexual offences. (Ynet/screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
January 1, 2023, 1:30 pm
Safed rabbi jailed for slew of sex offenses released from prison amid protests
After 7.5 years, Ezra Sheinberg, convicted of sexual assault and other crimes, leaves jail for new home in Golan Heights; local residents plan demonstrations
By Ash Obel
Tair Rada (Screenshot)
July 18, 2022, 4:48 pm
Hair found at scene of girl’s murder could match partner of defense-accused woman
Tair Rada’s case has gripped Israel, due to brutality of her murder and retrial of Roman Zadorov, initially convicted and serving prison time for crime
By ToI Staff
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