Civilian airspace in northern Israel closed over fears

Published on May 5, 2013

Israel closed the airspace in its North to civilian traffic following attacks on Syrian targets that were believed to be carried out by the Israeli military.

Six Syrian rebels hospitalized in Israel returned to Syria

Published on February 27, 2013

Six wounded Syrian rebels who were treated in an Israeli hospital after being wounded in their country's civil war were repatriated.

Jailed in Israel, Marwan Barghouti says he’ll be president of Palestine

Published on December 27, 2012

Marwan Barghouti, a convicted terrorist jailed in Israel, said he will be the president of a Palestinian state.

Dybbuks, demons and exorcism in Judaism

By Rabbi David Wolpe
Published on June 27, 2012

Rabbi Isaac Luria, one of the greatest of Jewish mystics, would walk in the hills of 16th century Safed and point out to his students the souls of the dead, often standing on their graves. In the same city at the same time, the great legal scholar Joseph Karo, author of the Shulchan Aruch, the great code of Jewish Law, was composing another book dictated to him by an angel.

Probe launched into Safed rabbi’s anti-Arab comments

Published on November 22, 2011

Israel's attorney general has opened a criminal investigation on suspicion of incitement to racism against the chief rabbi of Safed.

Vandalism on Safed synagogues being probed as retaliation for mosque arson

Published on October 12, 2011

Police are investigating vandalism on four synagogues in Safed as possible retaliation for a mosque arson in northern Israel.

Actors play doctor in Israel during week-long tour

By Hollywood Jew
Published on June 20, 2011

Safed teens indicted for torching Arab cars

Published on March 31, 2011

Two Jewish teens from Safed have been indicted for setting fire to two cars owned by Arab students. The teens were indicted Thursday for torching the cars as revenge for the murder of five members of the Fogel family in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Itamar. They deny the allegations.

Arab-owned cars set afire in Safed

Published on March 16, 2011

Two cars owned by Arab students at the Safed Academic College were set alight following a campus event to promote dialogue between Jews and Arabs. Anti-Arab graffiti also was spray-painted on the walls of the college following Tuesday night's event, according to reports. "Arabs get out," "Death to Arabs" and "Kahane was right" were among the epithets.

Safed rabbi refuses police summons over anti-Arab letter

Published on January 3, 2011

The Chief Rabbi of Safed, Shmuel Eliyahu, said he would refuse to respond to a police summons for questioning on suspicion of incitement to racism. Eliyahu reportedly did not present himself to Jerusalem police on Sunday, as ordered, over a letter signed by nearly 50 municipal rabbis calling on the Jewish public not to rent or sell homes to non-Jews, specifically Arabs. The official reason given for not answering the summons was time restrictions, the Jerusalem Post reported. But Eliyahu reportedly said, according to the Jerusalem Post that he “asked whether David Grossman, Yossi Sarid and Shulamit Aloni, who demonstrated against Jewish presence in the Shimon Hatzadik (Sheikh Jarrah) neighborhood, were also summoned for questioning. Were there summonses for the heads of the Jewish National Fund, whose constitution prohibits selling apartments to non- Jews? If not, double standards are being applied here, and I don’t intend on playing into the hands of a legal system that acts in a non-egalitarian manner.”

Find distributors of anti-Arab leaflets, Safed police ordered

Published on November 8, 2010

The Israeli prosecutor's office has ordered Safed police to investigate anti-Arab leaflets that were distributed throughout the city.

Safed banking on Rosh Hashanah visitation by Madonna

By Larry Luxner
Published on August 30, 2007

When it comes to spirituality, Safed lacks nothing. But the Israeli mountain town (also spelled Tzfat) has been struggling economically since last year's war with Hezbollah. That's why local tourism authorities are hoping a Rosh Hashanah visit by the Material Girl will bring real material benefits to its 30,000 residents. Madonna, returning to Israel for the first time since September 2004, plans to visit Safed - the world center of Jewish mysticism - along with Jerusalem, the Golan Heights and other points of interest as part of a tour being organized by the Los Angeles-based Kabbalah Centre.