Kiryat shmona

The team everyone abandoned: Ironi Kiryat Shmona, three years without home

Ironi Kiryat Shmona completes three years without a home or fixed routine, leaving club members furious: "Nobody cares about bringing us home."

|ByOR SHKEDI
A club source said angrily: “How can it be that restoring some sense of normalcy to this city through the club is not a top priority?”
Hunin castle just outside Margaliot and less than 1 kilometer from the Israel-Lebanon border.

Reporter's Notebook: Tourists visit northern Israel as sense of normalcy returns to kibbutzim

In 2024 this area was a warzone. Most of the residents had been evacuated, including the entire city of Kiryat Shmona. Today, it’s hard to remember now how forsaken this place was during the war.

|BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
Impact site in Kiryat Shmona.

Businesses shocked in Kiryat Shmona: State demands $68 million return

Blow to northern businesses: Out of nearly $1.7 billion transferred to the city, the Tax Authority is demanding hundreds of millions back.

|ByLIAT RON
Raz Malka, co-founded Lobby 1701

25 ViZionaries: Raz Malka - No. 13

Co-founded Lobby 1701, a movement that shares the story of the North

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

IDF eliminates Hezbollah terrorists Ahmad Mustafa Alhaj Ali, Muhammad Ali Hamadan in Lebanon

The terrorists who were responsible for numerous anti-tank missile launches toward Israeli territories.

OCTOBER 10, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Smoke billows over Beirut's southern suburbs, amid ongoing hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, as seen from Sin El Fil, Lebanon, September 28, 2024.

Military says 190 rockets pummel North, three soldiers killed in Gaza Strip

Former national security advisor says lack of Israeli response to Iran "is surprising" • Israeli official: Cabinet to discuss response to Iran

OCTOBER 10, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
IDF soldiers operate in the Gaza Strip, October 8, 2024.

Dvir Sharvit, Revital Yehud named as civilians killed in Kiryat Shmona rocket barrage

Two years ago, Yehud recovered from cancer and decided to move from Eilat to Kiryat Shmona, following her partner, Sharvit.

OCTOBER 9, 2024BySHAKED SADE, JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Dvir Sharvit and Revital Yehud were named as the two civilians killed in the Hezbollah rocket barrage fired at Kiryat Shmona. October 9, 2024.

House in Safed suffers direct hit from rocket fire

Alerts were triggered in Safed as a result of dozens of rockets fired towards the city.

OCTOBER 9, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Smoke trails are seen as rockets launched from Lebanon into Northern Israel are intercepted by Israeli anti missile system, as it seen from the northern Israeli city of Tzfat, October 9, 2024.

Two dead, eight wounded after barrage of 90 rockets pummel northern Israel

The Israel Air Force intercepted some of the rockets, while others fell in open areas, the military said.

OCTOBER 9, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Israeli security forces at the site where a missile fired from Lebanon hit a garage in the northern Israeli city of Kiryat Shmona, October 4, 2024.

Northern Israel's borderlands is under shadow of war - analysis

There was a time when this area would have been overrun by tourists, the wineries open and flowing.

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
Smoke billows from the site of an Israeli airstrike in Marjayoun, near the Lebanon-Israel border, on September 23, 2024. The Israeli military on September 23 told people in Lebanon to move away from Hezbollah targets and vowed to carry out more "extensive and precise" strikes against the Iran-back

Reporter's Notebook: Kiryat Shmona under Hezbollah rocket fire for 11 months of war

Israel is at a juncture today regarding the need to stop the Hezbollah threats along the border, and Israel's northern city is a microcosm of the challenges.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
A burned home in Kiryat Shmona, one of hundreds of places impacted by Hezbollah's attacks over the last 11 months.

Hezbollah fires triple rocket barrage at northern Israel hitting Kiryat Shmona building

Hezbollah released a statement that the rocket barrage toward Israel was done as retaliation for an earlier Saturday Israeli strike.

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF, YONAH JEREMY BOB
Flares, fired from the Israeli side, burn in the sky as seen from Ramyah near the Lebanese-Israeli border, in southern Lebanon, October 11, 2023 (illustrative).

IAF strikes Hezbollah terrorists, launchers in southern Lebanon

Firefighting teams are working to extinguish a fire caused by the rocket impact near Kibbutz Kfar Blum.

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A POLICE vehicle drives on a road near Meron in the North as a forest fire rages after rockets were fired from Lebanon last Friday. Despite its claims, Hezbollah is clearly trying to provoke Israel into a broader conflict, the writer asserts.

'The same fate': Northern evacuees angered by IDF response to Tel Aviv rocket threat

Northern Israel evacuees express frustration over perceived neglect as IDF preemptively strikes Hezbollah targets threatening Tel Aviv.

AUGUST 25, 2024ByEVE YOUNG
People walk near a damaged residential building due to a direct-hit from a projectile, in northern Israel, August 25, 2024