Tag: Haifa

Haifa police are now certain the fires that broke out throughout the city on Thursday morning were set by arsonists, as one of the fires appears to have been set just outside a fire station in the city – the idea being to delay the response of firefighting trucks to alarms.

Education Minister Naftali Bennett (Habayit Hayehudi) twitted on Wednesday: "Only someone this country doesn't belong to is capable of burning it."

At some point an alarm broke out, the branch manager showed up and called the police.

Scientists at the Technion have developed new technology to more accurately diagnose and treat cancer.

A new railway line has opened up in northern Israel, from Haifa to Beit She'an. Maybe someday it will reach Jordan, PM Netanyahu says.

More than a dozen new babies were born in Haifa's Carmel Medical Center on Yom Kippur. Mazel Tov!

Hundreds of Israelis gathered across the country on Monday to pray for the welfare of their Syrian neighbors the night before the holiest day of the Jewish year, Yom Kippur.

Police suspect that millions of dollars which had been reported as donations from abroad were, in fact, laundered funds of Israeli Arab citizens.

Iran is again threatening Israel, saying it will "turn Tel Aviv and Haifa to dust" pending mistakes by the "Zionist regime."

The little girl’s mother told the Israeli caregivers: “I would lie if I said that I expected the kind of humanity I discovered here."

As soon as they became public, those railroad projects turned into a ticking bomb.

The daily Yated Ne'eman cited MK Moshe Gafni (UTJ) who accused Katz of acting out of revenge rather than caring for the services of his ministry.

More than 200 new immigrants arrived on aliyah from eastern Ukraine, the 19th IFCJ flight since Dec. 2014.

Jellyfish caused a cascading blackout in the Philippines in 1999, and damaged the Diablo Canyon Power Plant in California in 2008. Clogging can stop desalination plants and ship engines.

On May 19, 1943, Germany was declared Judenrein (clean of Jews), with no Jewish high schools. Now we're back to three, and counting.

The singer describes the "Palestinians" as thorns in throat of the Zionist, which parallels and interesting line from the Torah.

About 9,000 Haredi couples get married each year in Israel, and their inability to come up with the down payment for their own home forces them to waste years worth of income on rent.

The public transportation system in Haifa is about to undergo a major expansion, radically improving access in the city.

The victim was evacuated to Rambam hospital downtown.

So far, according to IDF sources, the entire event is still a mystery.

Elbit successfully tested its 'Seagull' USV, launching a torpedo from the water-borne drone.

Daphna Meir hy'd fought back against her murderer, struggling to grab the knife as he stabbed her to death.

19-year-old achieves perfect score on Israel's college entrance exam.

The overall fertility rate (average number of children a Jerusalem woman is expected to bear in her lifetime) in Jerusalem is 3.91, far higher than the national average of 3.08.

Since the international community relies on the 1947 UN partition plan regarding the legal status of Jerusalem, it refuses to recognize Israeli sovereignty over any part of the city.

Prof. Sara Rosenblum: “The education system addresses reading skills, but there is insufficient attention to writing skills."

The heavy heat wave, now in its second day, continues to cause fires around Israel.

Sufferers from the disorder spend about 60% of their waking time in an imaginary world they have created, without losing contact with the real world.

Rabbi Dr. Elad Dukov of Haifa's Technion Institute of Technology was arrested Monday at the Temple Mount.

Police interrogated with a warning two employees of the Haifa Religious Council, one of them senior.