Galilee

For Illustation: View of solar panels set up in the Negev desert, June 19, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Israel earmarks NIS 75 million for five new tech innovation hubs in the periphery

Tech hubs will be established in the Negev and Galilee to boost local high-tech employment and entrepreneurship in areas of agriculture, food, energy and climate change solutions

June 13, 2023, 8:32 pm

Israel earmarks NIS 75 million for five new tech innovation hubs in the periphery

Tech hubs will be established in the Negev and Galilee to boost local high-tech employment and entrepreneurship in areas of agriculture, food, energy and climate change solutions

By Sharon Wrobel

Inspectors for the Israel Antiquities Authority Theft Prevention Unit with three ossuaries recovered from a burial cave in northern Israel that was nearly destroyed by construction. (courtesy Yoli Schwartz/IAA)

May 23, 2023, 2:58 pm

Family building a house in northern Israel destroys 1,800-year-old burial cave

Inspectors raid construction site where bulldozers flattened cave, find ossuaries; owner to be indicted for failing to report antiquity discovery

By Melanie Lidman

Moshe Mordechai Elhadad, 12 at the time of his death in 2021, is one of the 45 people who perished in the Mount Meron disaster in northern Israel on Lag B'Omer. (Courtesy of Shimon Elhadad)

May 3, 2023, 8:30 pm

On Meron disaster anniversary, relatives of victims connect to the site ‘even more’

Still processing the loss of 45 lives during 2021 pilgrimage, family members of the deceased say the tragedy has only strengthened their devotion to the event

By Canaan Lidor

A man rides his bicycle past a mosque in the Circassian village of Kfar Kama in the northern Galilee region, on December 21, 2022. (Jalaa Marey/AFP)

March 13, 2023, 10:08 am

Israel expresses frustration as delegation is barred from UN event in Saudi Arabia

Riyadh failed to issue visas to residents of Kfar Kama, a Circassian Muslim town picked as global ‘tourist village’; Tourism Ministry accuses UN of failing to meet own standards

By ToI Staff and Lazar Berman

Negev and the Galilee Minister Yitzhak Wasserlauf arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on January 3, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

February 7, 2023, 3:32 pm

New department in Negev and Galilee Ministry to bolster illegal West Bank outposts

Sunday cabinet decision fails to clarify what ‘young settlement’ office’s powers will be, and how it will overlap with various other settlement-related bodies

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

The entrance to the Circassian village of Kfar Kama with an inscription in Hebrew and Circassian saying 'welcome' December 2020. (svarshik via iStock by Getty Images)

December 20, 2022, 11:25 pm

Circassian town in northern Israel wins UN recognition as global ‘tourist village’

Kfar Kama, in lower Galilee, is one of only two Circassian communities in Israel; award ceremony set for February in Saudi Arabia

By Danielle Nagler

A view of Tiberias and the Sea of Galilee, 2019. (Thomas Leirikh via iStock by Getty Images)

October 6, 2022, 10:25 pm

Tiberias secures NIS 2.7b budget to reinvigorate ‘capital’ of north

New funds, joint approach by municipality and government bodies set to boost housing, public spaces in city on the Sea of Galilee

By Danielle Nagler

Ayoub Rumeihat takes a moment after visiting a cemetery for Arab Bedouins who fell in the service of the state of Israel, in a hillside near Zubaydat in the Galilee region, Aug. 23, 2022. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

September 8, 2022, 12:01 pm

Bedouin community fear Galilee conservation plan is part of a bid to ‘uproot’ them

Nature and Parks Authority faces opposition to planned wildlife corridor near Haifa, which environmentalists say is an important part of efforts to protect endangered animals

By Sam McNeil

An aerial view of Rameh, an Arab town in the western Galilee, August 20, 2018. (Matanya Tausig/Flash90)

June 9, 2022, 9:12 pm

Blueprint for Western Galilee seeks to double population, develop coastal areas

New master plan for region delivers ambitious projects to attract residents, grow economy

By Danielle Nagler

Excavations at a Hellenistic-era farmstead uncovered in the Galilee during salvage excavations ahead of a pipe bring desalinized water to the Sea of Galilee. (Emil Aladjem, Israel Antiquities Authority)

May 25, 2022, 10:10 am

Stilled life: Why did farmers flee a homestead in the Galilee 2,100 years ago?

A salvage excavation uncovers a frozen scene of existential distress during the Hellenistic era and an earlier agricultural community from the Iron Age

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Bees populate new high-tech beehives, part of the Beehome project, in Israel's Kibbutz Beit Haemek in the northern Galilee, on May 14, 2022. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

May 18, 2022, 8:06 pm

Kibbutz employs new smart hive tech to keep its bees buzzing

Israeli startup builds hives featuring AI that monitors bees’ needs and responds to problems in real-time

By Alexandra Vardi

A picture taken on April 9, 2018, shows an Iron Dome missile defense battery, designed to intercept and destroy incoming short-range rockets and artillery shells, deployed on the Golan Heights near the border with Syria. (Jalaa Marey/AFP)

February 18, 2022, 12:07 pm

Drone from Lebanon triggers sirens across north, evades Iron Dome

Military says jets scrambled and missile fired at UAV, but it missed, amid rash of recent drone incidents; no injuries or damage reported

By Judah Ari Gross

Cows in the snow in the northern Golan Heights, January 19, 2022. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

January 23, 2022, 6:32 pm

Jerusalem braces for a dusting of white as winter storm moves in

Blizzard expected in the Golan and Galilee highlands, with some snow in the center of the country; heavy rainfall predicted along the coastal plain

By ToI Staff

A diabetic man injecting himself with insulin (iStock by Getty Images)

November 17, 2021, 6:20 am

University launches major $75 million project to combat diabetes, as cases climb

Bar Ilan University initiative will focus on Galilee region, where cases are 3 times higher than national average; 1 million Israelis expected to be diabetic by 2040

By Nathan Jeffay

View of the northern Israeli city of Ma'alot-Tarshiha, on February 7, 2019. (Courtesy Hadas Parush/Flash90)

October 28, 2021, 5:43 pm

After COVID break, documentary film festival returns to north

DocAviv to once again run in Ma’alot-Tarshiha in Galilee

By Jessica Steinberg