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


Where spirituality meets luxury in Safed

The Way Inn has been called ‘the world’s first Kabbala hotel’

 The exterior of the Ashkenazi Ha’Ari Synagogue in Safed, where the custom of ‘kabbalat Shabbat’ began.

Legacy center dedicated in Safed

President Reuven Rivlin sent a letter that was read at the ceremony saying he was delighted with what he called a “wonderful initiative."

Inside the Old City of Safed

Hashgacha Pratit threatens to sue Safed's chief rabbi, NGO over kashrut slack

A ruling by the High Court of Justice in September gave Hashgacha Pratit greater legal scope for its kashrut supervision service.

Hashgacha Pratit founder Rabbi Aharon Leibowitz (right) presenting a supervision certificate to the Whisky Bar Museum in Tel Aviv.

Veterans: 'I don't take the Torah lightly'

“It’s the word of God and I thought that perhaps I should get serious.”

Jeremiah Benzion, 43 from San Diego, California, to Rosh Pina 2006.

5778, a view from the stars: A kabbalistic astrologer charts the future

Privately, in her fourth house of “home and family,” Israel is idealistic Aquarius, the water-bearer, compassionate, humanitarian, gatherer of diversity, open-minded, futuristic and innovative.

ANDREAS CELLARIUS, 1661: Astrological aspects, such as opposition, conjunction, etc., among the planets.

Safed, spiritualité et musique

La mystique petite ville de Galilée à l’heure du klezmer

Festival klezmer 2013, Safed

Defeat for Chief Rabbi Yosef in High Court ruling on ‘Agunah from Safed’

In 2014, the Safed Rabbinical Court issued an innovative ruling in Jewish law issuing a bill of divorce to a woman whose husband was in a permanent vegetative state, on behalf of the husband.

‘Agunah from Safed’ case

Safed mayor arrested on bribery suspicions

The four individuals arrested and questioned on Monday are suspected of committing a litany of offenses centered around alleged illegal real estate deals.

Inside the Old City of Safed

מַעַרְכוֹת בְּטִיחוּת אַקְטִיבִיוֹת

Active safety systems

Active safety systems

Safed hospital seeks donations to treat wounded Syrian civilians

Hospital director Dr. Salman Zarka thanks all those Israelis who have already contributed and volunteered, as well as the medical staff who are treating the patients.

Esther Ambar, the nurse in charge of the Neonatal Department at the Ziv Medical Center, with the seventh Syrian baby born at the hospital.