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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 344

Tiberias

Asaf Ben Lulu sits at the entrance to his home in Eilon on June 9, 2024. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)
June 18, 2024, 2:31 am
Braving Hezbollah’s drones and rockets, the few remaining northerners brace for war
Confronted with their communities’ vulnerability, a handful of locals stay put as they consider an uncertain future for themselves and their still-evacuated children
By Canaan Lidor
Haredi Jews watch preperations for the Lag B'Omer festivities at the Shimon HaTzadik tomb in Jerusalem on May 22, 2024. (Photo by Arie Leib Abrams/FLASH90)
May 25, 2024, 8:12 am
Fearing Hezbollah in north, state moves Lag B’Omer event to East Jerusalem flashpoint
With Mt. Meron in the Galilee closed due to missile fears, 30,000 pilgrims are expected to stream into the Shimon HaTzadik tomb in Sheikh Jarrah on Saturday night and Sunday
By Canaan Lidor
Family and friends of Captain Roy Beit Yaakov attend his funeral at the Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem on May 16, 2024. (Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
May 17, 2024, 1:20 am
Diverse backgrounds give way to shared fate as Gaza friendly-fire victims eulogized
Five soldiers killed by mistaken tank fire in Gaza came from Tel Aviv, Tiberias; two West Bank settlements and Buenos Aires, to serve in special religious unit
By Canaan Lidor
Hamas's Gaza Strip leader Yahya Sinwar in a tunnel in southern Gaza's Khan Younis, October 10, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)
February 29, 2024, 1:42 pm
Daily Briefing Feb. 29: Day 146 – Sinwar claims Hamas is winning the war. Here’s why
Editor David Horovitz on the similar but opposite victory narratives of Hamas and Israel, more efforts to stir up Temple Mount trouble during Ramadan, and Haredi military conscription
By ToI Staff
A truck in flames following an alleged Israeli airstrike near the Syrian town of Qusayr, February 25, 2024. (X screengrab: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
February 28, 2024, 1:06 pm
Daily Briefing Feb 28: Day 145 – Israel’s conflict with Iran comes into focus in Syria
Arab affairs reporter Gianluca Pacchiani on the PA government’s resignation; reporter Canaan Lidor on Tiberias as a political microcosm, and a stand taken by South African Jewry
By ToI Staff
Ron Kobi, holding cellphone, visits a balloting station in Tiberias on February 27, 2024. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)
February 28, 2024, 2:59 am
In Tiberias, Haredi locals cheer for defeat of their secularist nemesis’s comeback bid
Exit polls indicate former mayor Ron Kobi lost race to candidate endorsed by influential ultra-Orthodox rabbis, in microcosm of Israel’s religious-secular divisions
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
Ron Cobi, a former mayor of Tiberias and a candidate for the job, stands atop a hill overlooking his city in Israel on August 22, 2023. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)
September 20, 2023, 10:42 am
Local elections turn placid Tiberias into unlikely front in Israel’s societal clash
Haredi and secularist extremism, as well as the alleged involvement of a former politician with a criminal record, are muddying the lakeside city’s political waters
By Canaan Lidor
Police arrest Rami Ismail (left) near Kiryat Shmona on August 11, 2023, on suspicion of extortion attempts. (Israel Police)
August 23, 2023, 4:30 pm
Prosecutors seek to use new ‘protection law’ against criminal suspect in north
Rami Ismail, who was arrested earlier this month, could be the first person charged under new legislation that sets minimum prison sentences for such shakedowns
By ToI Staff
President of the Supreme Court Esther Hayut and Supreme Court justices at the High Court in Jerusalem hear petitions against the so-called 'Tiberias law,' on July 30, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 31, 2023, 1:34 pm
Daily Briefing July 31: On final Knesset day, High Court hobbles coalition’s pet law
Knesset correspondent Carrie Keller-Lynn and legal reporter Jeremy Sharon review a charged summer Knesset session and its looming aftermath, with a legal showdown set for September
By ToI Staff
Acting Tiberias mayor Boaz Yosef at a hearing at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, in petitions against the so-called "Tiberias law," on July 30, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 31, 2023, 12:09 am
High Court rules unanimously against mayoral election law that would benefit Deri ally
Judges say changes to cooling-off period for acting mayor must take effect only after next municipal poll; note legislation seemed ‘tailor-made’ to benefit Boaz Yosef
By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff
An aerial view of Netanya in 2022. Illustrative. (Wirestock via iStock by Getty Images)
July 28, 2023, 4:23 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
Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara arrives to attend the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, July 9, 2023. (Gil Cohen-Magen/Pool Photo via AP)
July 27, 2023, 7:55 am
AG slams ‘flawed’ law benefiting Deri ally in Tiberias mayoral race
Baharav-Miara says law, frozen since last week, ‘sets legal situation backward,’ unfairly benefits incumbents, and should not be implemented at upcoming vote on October 31
By ToI Staff
Health and Interior Minister Aryeh Deri seen outside his home in Jerusalem on January 19, 2023 following the High Court of Justice ruling barring him from ministerial office. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90
July 20, 2023, 7:25 pm
Court temporarily blocks law benefitting Deri ally in Tiberias municipal race
Justices issue injunction against legislation which removes requirement for caretaker mayors to sit out an election period before running for the office they were appointed to
By ToI Staff
MK Aryeh Deri seen during a vote on the judge-picking panel at the assembly hall of the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, June 14, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 5, 2023, 5:57 am
Knesset passes law nixing time-out for appointed mayors, boosting Deri associate
Measure passes on second and third reading despite allegations of being tailored to allow the well-connected acting mayor of Tiberias to run for the seat as an incumbent
By Carrie Keller-Lynn and ToI Staff
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