Police and the Israel Dog Unit searched the Safed and Meron region this week for two men missing since 2022 and 2024, covering areas also relevant to several other unsolved missing-person cases.
Marking 949 days since Hymanut Kassaou disappeared in Tzfat, her parents lead a march to the Western Wall, where her mother places a prayer note between the stones.
President Isaac Herzog told Hymanot Kassau’s family that the Shin Bet has joined the investigation and efforts to locate the 9-year-old, who has been missing for about two and a half years.
Extensive searches are underway by police and rescue forces for Kasriel Nachman Keinan, a 24-year-old from Beit Shemesh, as fears grow among family members that he may have been targeted in a criminal incident or kidnapping.
Safed historian Yaakov Schenkman discovered an Irgun heritage site vandalized, with its Israeli flag torn down, gate ripped out and trash strewn inside.
Doctors reported a rare complete response in a patient with advanced prostate cancer following targeted radioactive treatment at Ziv Medical Center.
Throughout the commemoration, IDU volunteers deployed specially trained working dogs and maintained a visible security presence around key gathering points.
Dozens of rabbis in Tzfat have issued a public appeal calling for the immediate cancellation of public bus services operating during Shabbat, saying the move undermines the city's longstanding status quo and Jewish identity.
In a video shared by israeli-Arab Yoseph Haddad, Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu refers to him as a 'brother,' which Haddad claimed strengthened his sense of belonging.
Religious tensions in Tzfat intensified over the weekend as hundreds of demonstrators gathered at the city's main bus stations to protest bus services running on Shabbat.
Students at Tzfat's Or Menachem School got a firsthand look at Israel's emergency response capabilities as search and rescue dogs, drones, police horses and rescue teams staged a large-scale demonstration amid the city's ongoing security challenges.
The Jewish Agency and the family are offering a one million shekel reward for information leading to Hymanut Kassou - a nine-year-old girl vanished years ago in Tzfat.
Rescue volunteers evacuate grandmother and five grandchildren, en route to Meron, from Nahal Amud escarpment.
The chief rabbi of Tzfat sent a sharp letter to Minister Miri Regev alleging discrimination in the allocation of buses to the Tomb of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai.
Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu leads festive holiday prayers from Tzfat, thousands of viewers join livestream.
Twelve-year-old girl attempts to get out of bed as siren sounds in Tzfat, United Hatzalah evacuates her to hospital in serious condition and undergoing CPR.
Residents of certain areas of Tzfat should remain at home, close windows, after missile debris causes concern of dangerous chemical leak.
The IDF Home Front Command and local emergency teams staged disaster simulations in schools, testing rescue responses, student evacuations, and multi-agency coordination to ensure readiness for worst-case scenarios.
The Attorney General approved involving the ISA in the search as an assisting agency only in a Knesset meeting marking two years to the day since the 9-year-old girl disappeared in Tzfat.
Minister Ben-Gvir: "Residents have a basic right to defend themselves and their families. The gun reform proves itself every day."
The family of Hymanut Kassaou and several Members of Knesset are demanding that she be recognized as a hostage rather than a routine missing person case.
More than 21 months after the disappearance of 9-year-old Hymanut Kassou, Israeli search teams and lawmakers gathered on Sunday for a renewed large-scale operation aimed at finding any trace of the missing child and raising public awareness.
The Israel Dog Unit (IDU), a nonprofit organization specializing in working dogs, has been conducting two simultaneous large-scale search operations this week for missing individuals in different parts of the country.
Young boy from Tzfat found at Western Wall in Jerusalem after Northern District police conduct extensive searches throughout the night.
The Immigration, Absorption, and Diaspora Committee discussed once again the case of 9-year-old Haymanut Kassou’s disappearance. Her family stated: “We need results, not just words.”
Unprecedented search operation in Tzfat: Hundreds of civilians, the Israel Canine Unit and Israel Police continue operation to locate Haymanut Kasau, who has been missing for 555 days.
At the request of the Israel Police, the Israel Dog Unit (IDU)—a nonprofit organization specializing in working dogs - held a special demonstration at an absorption center in Tzfat for immigrants from the Ethiopian Jewish community.
Cyberattacks and harassment target Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu’s special court, in what is believed to be retaliation by associates of a rabbi from Elad.
The renewed operation was sparked by new testimony regarding the possible whereabouts of David Fadida, who disappeared near Tzfat on October 15, 2024, at the age of 28.
Zipora Alexandra, who frequently performed at Zion Square in Jerusalem, has been missing for over eight days.
MKs from both the coalition and opposition supported increased efforts to find Hymanut Kassou, with some alleging she had been abducted.
On the anniversary of the disappearance of Hymanut Kassou, the National Security Committee held a meeting today to investigate the Israel Police's failure to find her.
The Immigration Committee held a special meeting today to review the ongoing search for Hymanut Kassou, a girl who vanished from Tzfat.
A special dinner was held by the city this week to recognize all the volunteer emergency responders for their efforts throughout the war.
Crews searched for trapped individuals, aired out the smoke, and extinguished the flames which were suspected to have been caused by a lit menorah that fell over.
The bodies of the five Israelis who were killed in a car accident in Morocco arrived in Israel and were brought to Meron and Tzfat for burial.
The brother-in-law of one of the victims of the fatal car accident in Morocco recounted: 'He was a spiritual man, modest, who would get up in the middle of the night to study Torah.'
The deadly accident took place near the city of Ouarzazate, when a vehicle carrying five Israelis apparently lost control and overturned, killing all of the passengers.
Health Minister Moshe Arbel comments on the fact that there are still 101 hostages in Gaza: We sinned because we didn't do enough.
MG Rafi Milo visited the scenes of missile strikes in Tzfat and Kiryat Shmona and called on civilians to continue following the HFC guidelines.
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant visited Tzfat today and pledged to help the city once again achieve peace and security.
Around 100 missiles launched towards Tzfat and Golan Heights, one victim suffers light injuries.
PM speaks with Tzfat Mayor Yossi Kakon: "We will do everything necessary to restore life to normal and remove threat from residents of the north.
IDF says most of the projectiles were successfully intercepted, and the rest fell in open areas. Fragments of a rocket which had been intercepted exploded in Moshav Dalton, no injuries.
Safed's Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu calls on the government to take action to allow northern residents to live safely.
Fire breaks out at synagogue in the northern city of Safed.
During a Knesset committee meeting, it was revealed that several days before nine-year-old Hymanut Kassou's disappearance, someone had attempted to kidnap her. Her father related
Hymanut Kassou disappeared 162 days ago in Tzfat. Searchers continued an intensive hunt for any clues to her whereabouts on Monday.
A special meeting was held to determine how best to cooperate in the possible scenarios that could face Israel following the attacks in Beirut and Tehran.
Firefighters battling blazes caused by rocket barrage, power outages reported. One home suffers direct hit while people were inside. No physical injuries, but the home is damaged.
Hymanut Kassou vanished more than 120 days ago in the Tzfat area, leading to a mass search effort that has carried on for nearly four months.
During his two-day trip to northern Israel, President Isaac Herzog stopped by one of the city's many synagogues to pray alongside the residents.
Two firefighting crews are working to extinguish a blaze in Birya forest caused by shrapnel from an interceptor missile.
UAV that approached northern Israel from the east successfully intercepted by IAF fighter jet outside of Israeli territory. Shrapnel falls in northern Israel, causing a fire in the area of Tzfat.
Heads of authorities in the north joined the fight to save local businesses and called on the government to include them in the government grants budget to prevent their collapse.
Barrage of at least 35 rockets fired towards Tzfat as Israelis gather to celebrate the start of Passover. IDF strikes Hezbollah terrorist infrastructure in southern Lebanon.
MK Tsega Melaku spoke to Arutz Sheva and called for increased efforts to search for the nine-year-old girl who disappeared from an absorption center in Tzfat and has not been found.
Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu spoke at a meeting of the Knesset Lobby for the Prevention of Sexual Abuse on the importance of treating sexual offenders: 'We are correcting so much wrong in this world. Saving so many lives.'
Thousands of searchers have been working around the clock in the Tzfat region, but have yet to find any trace of the missing 9-year-old Hymanut Kassou.
One of the organizations searching Tzfat for a missing nine-year-old girl calls for immediate involvement of the ISA to help find her, as long as a terrorist incident cannot be ruled out.
