Northern Israel

'Performative, lacking significance': Northern mayor slams gov't over Kiryat Shmona cabinet meeting

Davidi said the ministers’ arrival in the north, more than two years after the war began, amounts to “a certificate of poverty” for the government.

FEBRUARY 1, 2026|ByELI ASHKENAZI

Residents of the northern city of Kiryat Shmona check missile attack damages at the city's Central Bus Station and Mall, Kiryat Shmona, Northern Israel on November 27, 2024.

An employee of Israel’s Nature and Parks Authority inspects a burnt tree following a rocket attack from bordering Lebanon, at the Tel Dan nature reserve in northern Israel in November 2024.

The land still burns: Israel’s damaged forests face long road to recovery after war

After two years of war, Israel is counting the environmental costs – from blackened forests in the North to degraded soil in the South

JANUARY 27, 2026|BySAM HALPERN

Council for Higher Education approves the Kiryat Shmona University of the Galilee.

Council for Higher Education approves Kiryat Shmona University in effort to rebuild northern Israel

"The decision to approve the Kiryat Shmona University of the Galilee is a central step in the process of restoring and strengthening Kiryat Shmona," said Education Minister Yoav Kisch.

JANUARY 21, 2026|ByTOBIAS HOLCMAN

Magnitude 3.7 earthquake strikes northern Israel, Defense Minister calls emergency meeting

Defense Minister Israel Katz called for the Home Front Command and the National Emergency Management Authority to develop a multi-year plan to address earthquake preparedness.

JANUARY 19, 2026|ByGOLDIE KATZ

Jewish National Fund-USA CMO: We create initiatives that are going to have ripple effects

“We are building up the North to entice people to move back and for more people to move there,” Bodner shared.

JANUARY 30, 2025ByALAN ROSENBAUM

Jodi Bodner, chief marketing officer for Jewish National Fund-USA spoke at The Jerusalem Post’s “Rebuilding the North” broadcast.

We are totally alone: Northern leaders call for more help from gov't in wake of Israel-Hamas war

More than 14 months into the Israel-Hamas War, “and we still don’t have a plan for the North,” Mateh Asher Regional Council head Moshe Davidovich said.

JANUARY 30, 2025ByEVE YOUNG

Haifa Mayor Yona Yahav spoke about the difficulties faced by residents of the North at The Jerusalem Post’s Israel’s North: Looking Forward conference.

Habitchonistim head: We need to build a Western-Israeli moderate Sunni alliance

Avivi said that Israel was able to destroy Hezbollah’s rocket arsenal by toppling its leadership, making it incapable of shifting to a full-scale war.

JANUARY 30, 2025ByALAN ROSENBAUM