Kiryat shmona

Israel's North needs a long-term plan, commitment to rebuild - opinion

Rebuilding Israel's North will not come from magic solutions, but from long-term thinking and real commitment.

 Yuval neighborhood in Kiryat Shmona.
A Magen David Adom ambulance; illustrative.

Sixteen injured in car accidents in northern Israel

PRESIDENT ISAAC HERZOG, Andy Ram and First Lady Michal Herzog at the Israel Tennis & Education Center in Kiryat Shmona this week.

President Herzog: Sport as beacon of hope in Kiryat Shmona

 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


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

Ayalim opens registration with scholarships up to NIS 20,000 in Metulla, Kiryat Shmona, Sderot, and more student villages across Israel.

The Ayalim Association student village in Karmiel.

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

The Jewish future is not only worth seeing. It is worth building, and it begins with us.

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.

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.