Weekend

Heading to the Jordan Valley: Four weekends of blossoms and springs

From this week until March 20, the Green Valley festival offers weekend guided tours, farmers’ markets, camping, traditional walks, and nature events for just NIS 10.

Lupines in Hemdat.
 Akotika Hotel.

Akotika: A seaside escape blending authentic charm and gourmet kosher cuisine

 GEMS 8.8

Popular beers and weekend drink recommendations

 Enjoy your weekend wine

Radical wine festival


Will 'Sundays off' reenter Israel's national agenda?

Over the years, there have been various initiatives to make Israel's week look more like that of other countries, to no avail.

Yisrael Beitenu head and former defense minister MK Avigdor Liberman

Making public transportation on Shabbat happen

A couple of months ago, Getting Around on the Weekends was finally launched, and was a success, both among Israelis who use public transportation, as well among the general public at large.

READY TO ride: Roey Schwartz-Tichon.

Shabbat candle-lighting times for Israel and U.S.

See Shabbat times for your area.

Shabbat candles

What Israel needs is a real weekend

The combination of Shabbat and Sunday would make an incredible difference in our tense, Israeli lives.

People walk down Jaffa Street in Jerusalem on a Shabbat afternoon.

Time for a long weekend

According to the Interior Ministry, there was a relatively high 55% voter turnout, almost 10% higher than the figure in local elections five years ago.

ELECTION POSTERS are displayed in Jerusalem in May, 2018.

This week in pictures: Refuge, bright lights and earthquakes

This week's events - frame by frame.

Damascus Gate, which leads to Jerusalem’s Old City, is projected with the word 'love' in different languages in honor of the capital’s 10th annual International Festival of Light, 2018

Knesset's long weekend proposal hits snag

The proposal, which would have given workers six long weekends a year, has been blocked.

Kulanu MK Eli Cohen

In case you missed it: Weekend news summary

Left your phone at home this weekend? These are all the major stories you missed!

US President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence (L) and National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster at the White House in Washington, US, July 18, 2017.

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Left your phone at home this weekend? These are all the major stories you missed!

Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron

Sundays-off bill is dead ‘unless labor laws reformed’

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu is accompanied by PMO Director-General Eli Groner to the weekly government meeting in Jerusalem