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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 571

Safed

Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu attends Lag Ba'omer celebrations in the northern city Safed, May 26, 2024 (David Cohen/Flash90)
February 19, 2025, 4:34 pm
Ultra-Orthodox rabbis secure majority in Israel’s top Jewish legal body
Chief Rabbinate Council is the main authority on Jewish law for government and religious services; head of advocacy group says new members all appear to back religious status quo
By Rossella Tercatin and Sam Sokol
Haymanut Kasau, 9, who went missing on February 25, 2024, from a Jewish Agency absorption center in Safed, northern Israel. (Courtesy)
February 14, 2025, 1:57 pm
Police weigh sending team to Ethiopia in hunt for Israeli girl who vanished a year ago
Report says key CCTV footage missing from time Haymanut Kasau, 10, disappeared at an absorption center in Safed in February 2024; MK: Government owes family more effort to find her
By ToI Staff
Ziv hospital in Safed on October 18, 2020. (David Cohen/FLASH90)
January 24, 2025, 11:27 am
13-year-old with no underlying conditions dies of flu in Safed, as cases rise
Flu morbidity this year is worst since 2012, data shows, as health experts urge vaccinations; more than 2,000 patients have been hospitalized for flu so far this year
By ToI Staff
Debbie Cohen, head nurse of Nursery Department A, and Amira Morad, staff nurse, check on newborn babies at Galilee Medical Center on December 22, 2024. (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel)
December 27, 2024, 5:49 am
Northern hospitals move out of underground bunkers after months of war
While hospital staff and patients welcome the return to routine and regular wards after crowded, dark conditions, management is still prepared ‘to go underground again’ if needed
By Diana Bletter
Clockwise from top left: Moshe Gallant, Yosef Tefilinski, Natan Shapira, Israel Meir Shasha and Shimon Tefilinski, who were killed in a car crash in Morocco on December 6, 2024. (Courtesy)
December 6, 2024, 2:55 pm
Five Israelis killed in Morocco car crash en route to pilgrimage site
Safed mayor confirms some victims were city residents; Israelis were reportedly part of a group of Hasidic pilgrims visiting rabbis’ gravesites
By ToI Staff
Smoke rises from a fire sparked by rockets fired from Lebanon outside Kibbutz Amiad, in northern Israel, September 14, 2024. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)
September 14, 2024, 3:01 pm
IDF strikes deep in Lebanon after Hezbollah bombards Safed area with over 60 rockets
Terror group claims attacks in response to previous IDF strikes in southern Lebanon; Hezbollah weapon depots in northeastern Lebanon destroyed in strikes
By Emanuel Fabian
Firefighting crews work to extinguish a blaze in the Birya Forest, north of Safed, following a Hezbollah rocket barrage, September 13, 2024. (Israel Fire and Rescue Services)
September 13, 2024, 9:23 am
Hezbollah drone hits Galilee after overnight barrage on Safed sparked forest fire
IDF says majority of projectiles intercepted, remainder fell in open areas; Iran-backed terror group claims attack was revenge for Israeli strike in southern Lebanon a day earlier
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
Rockets intercepted over the northern city of Safed, June 27, 2024. (David Cohen/Flash90)
June 27, 2024, 10:47 pm
Hezbollah shells north with 40 rockets after operative killed in IDF drone strike
US intel reportedly expects war in north in next few weeks if Gaza ceasefire not reached; no injuries in terror group’s attacks
By Emanuel Fabian
Staff Sgt. Omer Sarah Benjo (Courtesy)
June 4, 2024, 9:50 pm
Staff Sgt. Omer Benjo, 20: Observation soldier was ‘full of grace’
Killed by a rocket fired at an IDF base in Safed on February 14, 2024
By ToI Staff
An Israeli fighter jet is seen firing a flare over southern Lebanon on May 16, 2024. (Menahem Kahana / AFP)
May 24, 2024, 8:30 am
IAF fighter jets down three drones launched at Israel by Iran-backed Iraqi militia
Two UAVs shot down near southernmost city Eilat; third intercepted in north, causing shrapnel to strike Safed area; no injuries
By Emanuel Fabian
Haymanut Kasau, 9, who went missing on February 25, 2024, from a Jewish Agency absorption center in Safed, northern Israel. (Courtesy)
March 14, 2024, 6:44 pm
Jewish Agency offers NIS 100,000 reward for info leading to missing girl
9-year-old Haymanut Kasau last seen on security cam footage on February 25; police have no leads on her whereabouts
By ToI Staff
Haymanut Kasau, 9, who went missing on February 25, 2024, from a Jewish Agency absorption center in Safed, northern Israel. (Courtesy)
February 27, 2024, 4:59 pm
Police launch massive manhunt to find 9-year-old Safed girl missing since Sunday
Haymanut Kasau last seen outside absorption center handing out election leaflets; canine unit chief says case ‘extremely unusual,’ lack of evidence ‘very worrying’
By Michael Horovitz
The damage after a rocket fired from Lebanon hit a building in the northern Israeli town of Kiryat Shmona, February 11, 2024. (David Cohen/Flash90)
February 22, 2024, 9:03 am
Refusing evacuation, those who remain in Kiryat Shmona cling to home and brace for ‘hell’
Saying their presence on the war-torn border helps guard the center, some 20% of the northern city’s residents won’t budge despite financial uncertainty and frequent rocket strikes
By Canaan Lidor
People walk in the Old city of Safed, northern Israel, February 4, 2024. (David Cohen/Flash90)
February 16, 2024, 6:02 am
In Safed, a deadly rocket salvo fails to rattle deeply rooted residents
Jews have lived for centuries in the northern holy city. Its resilient inhabitants resumed regular life mere hours after Hezbollah hit it for the first time in years
By Canaan Lidor
Rescuers check a building targeted overnight by an Israeli airstrike in the southern Lebanese city of Nabatieh on February 15, 2024. (Mahmoud ZAYYAT / AFP)
February 15, 2024, 1:12 pm
Hezbollah vows revenge after 10 civilians said killed in south Lebanon strikes
IDF reports fresh bombardments of terror sites after heavy retaliatory attacks a day earlier kill 3 Hezbollah members, but also multiple people from 2 families in Nabatieh, Sawana
By Agencies
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