Safed

WATCH: Rocket hits parking lot in Safed as Hezbollah keeps firing at northern Israel

The IDF confirmed that the incident in Safed was due to a direct hit and not due to shrapnel, as it was originally believed. More than 30 rockets were fired on Friday against northern Israel.

Parking lot damaged in Safed.
Damage after Iranian missile fragments hit a residence in the Tel Aviv area, March 26, 2026.

Six injured as cluster munition fragments hit central Israel amid intense Iranian barrage

United Hatzalah volunteers respond to the scene of a rocket hit in Nahariya, March 16, 2026.

At least eight wounded after several waves of missiles from Iran, Hezbollah, including direct hit

A poster of nine-year-old Haymanut Kasau, who has been missing since 2023, seen on December 18, 2025

Two years on: Missing young girl Haymanut Kasau still not found


Confusing developments in Israel’s rabbinical courts

Can legally divorced people ever feel and act in accordance with their new personal status, or are they wedded to the rabbinical courts forever, in unending anticipation of its reversal of their status?

A still from the film 'Gett,’ which examines Jewish divorce laws

Safed’s chief rabbi nixes coed musical performance in synagogue

The Safed Municipal Council strongly criticized Eliyahu’s decision, calling it “astonishing and outrageous” and incommensurate with the consensus in the city.

Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu

This Week in Israeli History: 1929 Arab Riots

The Jerusalem Post

Finding peace in the North through a Japanese weaving method

Since arriving in Israel in August 2008, the family has also tended goats, ducks, dogs, cats and a host of other creatures.

Ja’el Batyah Hatch

A gleesome threesome

The Simply Tzfat trio is a mainstay at the annual Klezmer Festival.

The Simply Tzfat trio

Safed, the magical city

An unusual juxtaposition of the holy and mundane.

The house of Moshe Castel

Galilee medical facilities in Safed produces first graduating class

Four veteran medical schools have relented from previously called the adding the facilities a ‘disaster’

Galile’s medical facilities first graduating class

Large fire breaks out in the North; no injuries reported

The fire, located in the Biriya Forest near the grave of Rabbi Yonatan Ben Uziel, did not cause any injuries.

Fire breaks out in the North

Grapevine: Mixed martial arts

Several martial arts events coming on up.

Karate (illustrative)

Not on my watch: IFCJ coordinator Shira Gergi’s battle to help society

One of Gergi’s latest projects was opening up a club in Kiryat Shmona for extracurricular activities for schoolchildren.

 International Fellowship of Christians and Jews’ coordinator Shira Gergi