Safed

Safed Rabbinical Court may close this fall despite strong local demand

Several rabbis wrote a letter to the chief rabbi opposing the decision, and the Rabbinical Courts Administration said it is doing everything "in its power" to stop the closure, the report said.

|ByLEO FEIERBERG BETTER
Buildings in old city, Safed, Northern District, Israel.
Parents Tal and Kirish Akrish, residents of Kidmat Tzvi in ​​the Golan Heights.

Israel's furthest north communities welcome baby born during Independence Day

Tal and Kirish Akrish brought their third son into the world, the first to be born at the Ziv Medical Center's maternity ward since the war started more than a month ago.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Parking lot damaged in Safed.

WATCH: Rocket hits parking lot in Safed as Hezbollah keeps firing at northern Israel

The IDF confirmed that the incident in Safed was due to a direct hit and not due to shrapnel, as it was originally believed. More than 30 rockets were fired on Friday against northern Israel.

|ByTOBIAS HOLCMAN, BATIA GILADI
Damage after Iranian missile fragments hit a residence in the Tel Aviv area, March 26, 2026.

Six injured as cluster munition fragments hit central Israel amid intense Iranian barrage

Meanwhile, United Hatzalah paramedics successfully performed CPR on a girl, including using a defibrillator, after she fell out of bed during a siren, intending to rush to a sheltered area.

|ByJAMES GENN

A day in Kabbalistic Safed

The Ruth Safed Hotel is located in the heart of Safed's Artists' Colony and has hosted travelers and merchants.

NOVEMBER 20, 2022ByMEITAL SHARABI
RUTH SAFED Hotel.

Helen Bar-Lev: 50 years of adventure in Israel

Artist and poet Helen Bar-Lev has reinvented herself in Jerusalem, Safed and the Upper Galilee.

AUGUST 5, 2022ByLIANE GRUNBERG WAKABAYASHI
ART BY Helen Bar-Lev: Salant Street as seen from the Ethiopian compound, brown watercolor with brush and pen.

Klezmer festival returns to Safed for 35th year next month

The festival will include dozens of unique performances and activities celebrating the instrumental musical tradition of Ashkenazi Jews.

JULY 22, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Avrum Lieb Burstein plays the accordion with a klezmer band at Burstein’s Krechme

Israel Police catch cell suspected of torching buses in Safed

11 suspects were arrested on suspicion of involvement in arson and aiding the other suspects

JULY 17, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Eight buses catch fire in Kiryat Shmona, May 29, 2022.

Love blooms in Safed between two religious olim

Sarah Gittel became inspired by Yom Tov to pick up a paintbrush, which she hadn’t done since her youth.

JUNE 10, 2022ByABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
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Mystical Tzfat and historic Sarajevo

The Jerusalem Post Podcast - Travel Edition, Episode 34

MAY 24, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A Jewish publisher in Sarajevo presents May 24, 2006 a luxurious replica of the Haggadah, a 600-year-old Jewish manuscript that survived the Spanish inquisition, World War Two and Bosnia's 1992-95 war.

Safed chief rabbi: Pray for destruction of Iran nuclear program

The Safed chief rabbi called for people to pray for the destruction of Iran's nuclear program.

DECEMBER 16, 2021ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu attends to the funeral of Rabbi Elazar Mordechai Koenig in Safed on December 31, 2018.

Israel Open Chess Championship to be held at Safed

The tournament will occur from December 8 to 17 and NIS 80,000 worth of prizes will be handed out to the winners.

NOVEMBER 12, 2021ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Israeli chess players take part in a special chess tournament marking Israel's 70th anniversary at Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem's Old City, April 30, 2018.

My Word: A spiritual spa in Safed

The green Galilean mountains have a certain timelessness to them. There is a natural rhythm, like the time for prayers, dictated in terms of sunrise and sunset.

AUGUST 13, 2021ByLIAT COLLINS
The exterior of the Ashkenazi Ha’Ari Synagogue in Safed, where the custom of ‘kabbalat Shabbat’ began.

Unique’s unique journey to Israel

Unique's story starts in LA, and moves on to Israel through her parents, to the IDF, Safed and Tel Aviv.

JULY 29, 2021ByABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
Unique Niv Kruper with her husband in Cafe Bella