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Iceland rejects EU membership plan in referendum, after almost all votes were counted

Some 47.5% of voters supported the government's proposal while 52.5% said no, according to local broadcaster RUV's estimates. Final results are expected later on Sunday.

Tourists queue for a hot dog from Baejarins Beztu Pylsur stand ahead of a referendum on whether Iceland should resume accession negotiations with the European Union, in Reykjavik, Iceland, August 29, 2026.
Late poet Amir Gilboa’s rich oeuvre is celebrated at the festival.

Metula's Israeli Poets’ Festival returns to Jerusalem with all disciplinary guns blazing

Hanan Markovich, CEO of the Haifa Economic Corporation.

Israel's one-center economy is a national security risk – opinion

Officers' Pool, Ein Jilabun.

The secret northern pool: A short summer route leading to a cool spring


North faces haredi protest over Shabbat buses, anti-government protests to continue into night

According to Maariv, the areas expected to face protesters include Guma Junction, Kibbutz Eilon, Afula, Kabri, Nahariya, Tzemach, Rosh Pina, and Karmiel.

Ultra-Orthodox Jews protest against the drafting of ultra-Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem, January 11, 2026; illustrative.

One killed, nine wounded in car accident involving minibus on Highway 98 in northern Israel

The crash follows an accident on Wednesday involving a jeep, which overturned in the West Bank, severely wounding a 17-year-old girl.

One killed, nine wounded in car accident in northern Israel, August 2, 2026.

After two difficult years: The festival bringing life back to the Western Galilee

The July Art festival in the Western Galilee celebrates its ninth year with dozens of artists, galleries, and small businesses inviting visitors to rediscover this beautiful, recovering region.

The Western Galilee.

Not just in the North: The hidden pools and wet trails you need to know

We’ve gathered five sites - from the Galilee to the Great Crater - that prove that even in the hottest season of the year, Israeli nature knows how to offer shade, water, and coolness.

Ein Yorke'am.

'We are being abandoned': Northern Israel emergency response squads denounce reduced mobilization

The IDF Home Front Command will reduce standby emergency squads in northern Israel from Sunday, citing the Hezbollah ceasefire, while keeping forces on alert amid warnings of potential escalation.

A member of a northern Israeli community's emergency response squad; illustrative.

A house is not a home: The real test of new homes North and South - opinion

Will government ministries and local authorities treat this as a purely engineering project, or as a broader social-national mission?

 CONSTRUCTION OF new housing takes place in Safed, in June.

The children of the northern border pay the price of war - opinion

The time has come for the government to stop managing evacuations and start investing in community resilience and respite models with the same seriousness and budgets it invests in Iron Dome. 

Fire caused from rockets launched from Lebanon, outside the northern Israeli town of Kiryat Shmona, June 1, 2024

Iranian attack 'not suprising,' Israel must defend North, ex-Home Front Command official says

Former HFC official Dedi Simchi said Iran’s attacks were expected, arguing Israel must strike Hezbollah when needed despite the threat of Iranian fire.

HOME FRONT Command chief Shay Klepper meets with representatives from Israel's emergency services.

Hezbollah drone struck IDF Northern Commander Rafi Milo's car in recent Lebanon visit

Had Milo been harmed, let alone killed, it would have been viewed as a strategic victory for Hezbollah, since he would have been the highest-ranked Israeli commander killed during the war.

Rafi Milo, commander of the Homefront Command at the scene where a rocket fired from Gaza hit and damaged a house in Rehovot on May 11, 2023.Rafi Milo, commander of the Homefront Command at the scene where a rocket fired from Gaza hit and damaged a house in Rehovot on May 11, 2023.

These schools build Druze Israeli identity, one student at a time

Israel’s Druze community primarily lives in the country’s north, keeping its own traditions and leadership while maintaining loyalty to Israel and high rates of IDF service.

Jewish and Druze students come together and share bread and vegetables grown at a farm extension of the Amal high school in Yanuh Jat in November 2025.