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Zichron Yaakov

Former defense minister Yoav Gallant speaks with Yonit Levi and Amit Segal of Channel 12 news in an interview broadcast on February 6, 2025. (Channel 12 screen capture)
February 16, 2026, 12:18 pm
Israeli charged with spying on ex-defense minister Gallant for Iran
Fares Abu al-Hija, 32, allegedly carried out missions for figure he met via social media, including stashing phones in Haifa, photographing former minister’s home in Amikam
By Charlie Summers
Left to right: A photo from the exhibition 'Habyta' (Back Home) – The North Returns to Life' at Hula Lake Park during Passover 2025 (Credit Gil Eliyaho); Allancastria deyrollei, a butterfly of the family Papilionidae, being tracked in The Great Butterfly Count, held during Passover 2025 (Credit Moshe Lowdon)
April 10, 2025, 9:54 am
This Passover, count butterflies or see portraits of northerners who are finally back home
Ideas of places to go during the springtime holiday, with plenty that’s free and open to the public
By Jessica Steinberg
Floodwaters seen in Zichron Yaakov on November 19, 2024. (screen capture: Telegram)
November 19, 2024, 7:19 pm
Record-breaking rains swamp northern coast, with more showers on the way
High school in Ma’agan Michael closes early after drainage fails, flooding area with knee-high water; nearly 200mm of rain recorded in Zichron Yaacov over just 4 hours
By ToI Staff
Opening the new school year at the Horesh school in Zichron Yaakov, on September 1, 2024. (Gavriel Fiske/Times of Israel)
September 1, 2024, 5:33 pm
As northern evacuees begin school in Zichron Yaakov, some find a silver lining
At the Horesh combined primary and middle school in the northern town, displaced kids absorbed into the general student body are starting their second school year away from home
By Gavriel Fiske
From left to right, high school seniors Yuval Meller, Inbar Carmi and Maayan Shalom, at Tichon Hamoshava high school in Zichron Yaakov, on January 16, 2024. (Gavriel Fiske/Times of Israel)
January 24, 2024, 8:36 am
‘Ready to do whatever it takes’: 12th-graders find a protective bubble popped by war
Four teenagers set to graduate from a Zichron Yaakov high school join a roundtable discussion with ToI to discuss Gaza, the IDF, antisemitism and what comes next for them
By Gavriel Fiske
Sgt. Binyamin 'Benji' Needham who was killed in Gaza on December 3, 2023. (Courtesy)
December 6, 2023, 5:13 pm
Sgt. Benji Needham, 19: UK-born champion kickboxer
Killed fighting in northern Gaza on December 3
By ToI Staff
Anagu Walle, pictured with three of her children, from left, Mrte, Ermes and Yohanis, at the Nir Etzion Resort, northern Israel, October 15, 2023. (Courtesy, Embet Chekol, Jewish Agency)
October 17, 2023, 10:13 am
New immigrants who fled strife in Ethiopia now face war in Israel
Just months after reaching the Jewish state, a group of new arrivals was evacuated from an absorption center near the Gaza border town of Sderot, a target of heavy rocket fire
By Sue Surkes
The entrance to the offices of the Kohelet Forum, the conservative think tank deeply involved in the judicial overhaul, blockaded by protesters, March 9, 2023. (Flash90)
August 4, 2023, 3:09 pm
Main donor stops funding Kohelet think tank behind overhaul, calls to heal rifts
Breaking from divisive institute, US billionaire Arthur Dantchik urges Israeli unity: ‘When a society becomes dangerously fragmented, people must come together to preserve democracy’
By Michael Horovitz
Rendering of proposed wine park and surrounding homes, Zichron Yaakov, January 2023. (Courtesy: Tourism Ministry).
February 2, 2023, 12:28 am
Hotels okayed for Zichron Yaakov wine tourism complex
Planners give green light to component of well-aged Wine Park development, slated to include homes, galleries, workshops and more wine-centric attractions in the northern city
By Danielle Nagler
Illustrative: A view of the northern Israel city of Zichron Yaakov, January 28, 2016. (Lior Mizrahi/Flash90)
November 13, 2022, 12:43 am
Man seriously hurt in north, 3 injured in south, amid crime wave in Arab community
Zichron Yaakov stabbing of 22-year-old said to be result of argument between residents of nearby Jisr az-Zarqa; 14-year-old among wounded in shooting in Bedouin town of Tel Sheva
By ToI Staff
A street view in Old Jaffa, March 2020. (Dave McIntosh via iStock by Getty Images)
October 21, 2022, 8:40 am
Housing snapshot: Home sales and rentals across Israel
Our regular behind-the-scenes feature on what is going on in Israel’s housing market right now
By Danielle Nagler
Illustrative -- Dor Beach on September 9, 2017 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
July 20, 2022, 9:06 am
83-year-old man drowns off beach near Zichron Yaakov; son unable to save him
Son says they’d go to the beach every day; heart attack suspected
By ToI Staff
A vehicle burns after an apparent car bombing in Zichron Yaakov on July 6, 2022. (Courtesy)
July 6, 2022, 11:25 am
Man killed in apparent car bombing in Zichron Yaakov
Eyewitnesses say vehicle had just entered parking lot when it exploded; victim declared dead at the scene
By ToI Staff
The southern Israeli city of Eilat at dusk, April 2021. (gorsh13 via iStock by Getty Images)
May 10, 2022, 7:30 pm
Housing snapshot: 10 apartments and houses recently sold across Israel
A behind-the-scenes look at some of the units bought and sold nationwide so far this year
By Danielle Nagler
Public Security Minister Omer Barlev speaks during a plenum session in the assembly hall of the Knesset, in Jerusalem on January 31, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
February 6, 2022, 2:08 pm
Man arrested on suspicion of online threats against police minister Barlev
Suspect, 22, from Zichron Yaakov, recently posted content suspected to be incitement to violence against Labor party minister
By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff
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