Kiryat shmona

President Herzog: Sport as beacon of hope in Kiryat Shmona

Meeting with 30 children from northern centers, including 10 from Majdal Shams, the Herzogs engaged in an open dialogue that touched on both challenges and hopes for the future.

PRESIDENT ISAAC HERZOG, Andy Ram and First Lady Michal Herzog at the Israel Tennis & Education Center in Kiryat Shmona this week.
 Israeli president Isaac Herzog and his wife Michal visit Israeli kids on the first day of the school year in Kiryat Shmona, September 1, 2025.

Retired teacher returns to Kiryat Shmona to mark first day of school

The Ayalim Association student village in Karmiel.

Ayalim Association boosts incentives in war-affected areas including Sderot, Kiryat Shmona

CHILDREN RETURN to school for the first time since the beginning of the war, in Kiryat Shmona, in March. ‘I would stand in Kiryat Shmona in the North and see how we rebuilt from heartbreak,’ says the writer.

Where I’d go on a one-way ticket: A vision of Israel’s future - opinion


KKL-JNF strengthens Israel’s war-hit communities with housing subsidies, new projects

In the pilot phase, housing will be developed in seven towns: Yeruham, Dimona, Arad, Kiryat Shmona, Shlomi, Acre, and Nahariya.

 KKL-JNF to launch young community hubs in the periphery, led by pre-military academy graduates driving post-war social recovery.

Northern Israel grapples with fears and the long road home - watch

As rockets fall silent—for now—residents, soldiers, builders, and entrepreneurs race to rebuild northern Israel, balancing trauma, hope, courage, and politics.

 PRESIDENT ISAAC HERZOG is briefed on the security situation as he looks out at Lebanon from Metula.

Magen David Adom warns of blood shortage in Israel, calls for public donors

Donation stations will be deployed across Israel for the next two weeks for public donors.

 Magen David Adom Motorcycles

Ayalim Association is bringing students back to the north

Re-establishing their student village in Kiryat Shmona, Ayalim is offering a generous scholarship to a few lucky students.

 Members of the new student village of the Eyalim Association in the city of Kiryat Shmona

A full fridge: Tnuva to distribute dairy and food products to 2,000 families in Kiryat Shmona

Ahead of Passover, Tnuva is helping families return to Kiryat Shmona after 1.5 years. Each will get a food package worth hundreds of shekels, delivered home.

Asi Israelof at Tnuva’s logistics center with the coolers to be distributed to Kiryat Shmona residents

Israel recalibrating rules of war after Hezbollah rockets, strike in Beirut - analysis

Israel Katz issued a threat to Hezbollah, as he has done many times before. This time, however, the threat was not empty.

First responders work at the site of an Israeli strike in southern Beirut on March 28, 2025

IDF strikes Beirut building after two rockets launched at northern Israel

"When Hezbollah, Iran's terror proxy, fires on Israel, Israel must respond in Tehran," former prime minister Naftali Bennett wrote.

Smoke billows over Beirut's southern suburbs following Israeli strike after issuing an evacuation warning for the area, as seen from Baabda, Lebanon, March 28, 2025.

Revisiting Israel's North for the first time since war began - opinion

A warm feeling of recognition, admiration, and relief comes over me as I enter Israel’s third-largest city. Storms will thunder and roar greatly, but the anemones will always bloom.

 KIDS RETURN to school for the first time since the beginning of the war, in Kiryat Shmona, March 9.

How a tennis complex in Kiryat Shmona helps provide support to a rebuilding community

Tennis, along with other sports and recreational activities, may be a fun and friendly way to attract the youth, but the social and educational programs are a major underlying focus of the ITEC.

 The overgrowth in the ITEC in Kiryat Shmona.

Returning home: A Kiryat Shmona family’s journey after a year of evacuation

Anna Livadenko, the mother of two young children from northern Israel, highlighted that the family did not have anywhere else to stay or a big family to lean on

 Kids return to school for the first time since the beginning of the war, in the northern Israeli city of Kiryat Shmona, March 9, 2025.

Schools open in Kiryat Shmona after 16 months of war

The schools were largely repaired with the help of volunteers from around the country who sent several weeks in the northern city.

Fire caused from rockets launched from Lebanon, outside the northern Israeli town of Kiryat Shmona, June 1, 2024