Safed

941 days missing: Haymanot Kasau’s family rallies in Jerusalem to demand Shin Bet investigation

The protest follows the Jerusalem Municipality's refusal to permit the abducted girl's family to erect a protest tent.

Demonstrators at the rally for Haymanot Kasau, September 23, 2026.
One of the Way Inn's ten guest rooms, each individually designed around a sefirah, the Kabbalistic emanations that shape the boutique hotel's color, character, and architecture.

Returning to the mountain: A Rosh Hashanah homecoming in Safed

Protesters block roads in Tel Aviv demanding further government action into the disappearance of four-year-old Haymanut Kasau, July 26, 2026.

Haymanot's parents ask Shin Bet chief to take over investigation 911 days after disappearance

A sign in a Safed coffee shop showcasing the donation of recyclables to fund a tefillin stand.

Beyond the Headlines: Holiness in unexpected places - opinion


MK Tsega Melaku: Missing girl Haymanut Kasau ignored for nearly two years - interview

Melaku added that she distributed Kasau’s photo to fellow MKs "so they will remember: there is a kidnapped child, and nobody is talking about her."

A poster of nine-year-old Haymanut Kasau, who has been missing since 2023.

'God does not do a half job,' Safed's Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu says following Maduro's detention

“The shared denominator is clear,” Eliyahu wrote, describing systems built on oppression, corruption, and fear, and arguing that such a rule “will not survive over time,” according to the statement. 

Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu and Jewish children take part in a special prayer for rain at the Kinneret, the Sea of Galilee, in northern Israel, October 29, 2025.

Court clears Beersheba assault suspect of link to Haymanut Kasau disappearance, extends detention

According to KAN, police no longer attribute any involvement in Kassau’s disappearance to the suspect, though the investigation into the Beersheba incident will remain under Lahav 433's authority.

Nine-year-old Haymanot Kasau.

Nearly two year after disappearance: Police arrest suspect linked to missing girl Haymanut Kasau

Footage obtained by Walla shows a man arriving at the home of a young girl in Beersheba, later reportedly identified as a close friend of the missing Kasau.

Nine-year-old Haymanot Kasau.

Not just a view of the Galilee: The Safed hotel hiding Israel’s best wine bar

26.8, the wine bar of Chef Amos Hayun at the luxurious Canaan Hotel in Safed, has been named “Israel’s Best Wine Bar of 2025,” beating top contenders from Tel Aviv.

Canaan Hotel.

Images of female Zefat Academic College students vandalized in Safed

The billboards had only been installed a day before the vandalism, and the advertisements featuring male pupils were left untouched.

Posters advertising the Zefat Academic College were vandalized to hide the image of women.

Sixteen injured in car accidents in northern Israel

All of those wounded were evacuated to Ziv Medical Center in Safed by Magen David Adom (MDA), the hospital's spokesperson confirmed later in the day. 

A Magen David Adom ambulance; illustrative.

Ruth Hotel in Safed provides welcome break from reality

The hotel building is really beautiful. Originally, it was a khan, an inn, built by the Mamelukes in the 13th century.

THE RUTH Safed Hotel, a special place in the North.

Rabbinical Court approves Jewish divorce to a woman who was unable to remarry for over 20 years

The couple married in the United States in 1997 and had three children. In 2002, the woman filed for divorce in a US court, but her husband refused to participate in the proceedings.

 A WOMAN seeking divorce in a ‘beit din’ was the sole female in the room until the advent of ‘toanot.’ (Illustrative)

'No more space in the morgue': Israel sends aid to damaged Sweida hospital in coordination with US

Israel's Health Ministry is preparing the transfer of medical equipment and medications to Sweida's hospital following the recent violent Syrian Druze-Bedouin clashes that have left hundreds dead.

 A person, injured in recent clashes in Syria's Sweida province, is transported as casualties receive treatment at a field medical point, following renewed fighting between Bedouin fighters and Druze gunmen, despite an announced truce, in Deraa, Syria July 18, 2025