Kiryat shmona

All city buses in Eilat and Kiryat Shmona will be replaced with electric buses

Egged and Transport Ministry will convert two more cities to zero-emission public transport by end-2026. By year-end, Egged will operate 900 electric buses in Israel, including 200 intercity buses.

Egged electric buses.
Israeli Kindergarten in Northern Israel

One-third of students not registered for school in Kiryat Shmona, mayor warns

Electric Egged bus.

All city buses in Eilat, Kiryat Shmona to be replaced with electric ones by end of 2026

Yoel Zilberman together with participants from Hashomer Hachadash Youth today in the Eshkol region.

Second Hashomer Hachadash youth conference opens with series of activities in the Gaza Envelope


Returning home: A Kiryat Shmona family’s journey after a year of evacuation

Anna Livadenko, the mother of two young children from northern Israel, highlighted that the family did not have anywhere else to stay or a big family to lean on

 Kids return to school for the first time since the beginning of the war, in the northern Israeli city of Kiryat Shmona, March 9, 2025.

Schools open in Kiryat Shmona after 16 months of war

The schools were largely repaired with the help of volunteers from around the country who sent several weeks in the northern city.

Fire caused from rockets launched from Lebanon, outside the northern Israeli town of Kiryat Shmona, June 1, 2024

After about a year: Shufersal reopens its second branch in Kiryat Shmona

Although it was damaged in attacks during the fighting, the Shufersal Deal Metsudot branch reopens in anticipation of the return of Kiryat Shmona residents and the surrounding area to their homes.

 After about a year: Shufersal reopens its second branch in Kiryat Shmona

Like in a restaurant, but as homemade as it gets: Ground meat with roasted eggplant on rice

A recipe from Estherika restaurant in Kiryat Shmona, which has reopened its doors. You’re invited to prepare it, but more importantly, you’re invited to come and show your support.

 Ground meat with roasted eggplant on rice

Seven municipalities in Israel's North hold delayed municipal elections

Residents aged 17 and up are eligible to vote in municipal elections, and there are 70,058 eligible voters for Tuesday’s election.

 An Illustration of ballot envelopes ahead of municipal elections.

Rebuilding the North: Ayalim Association's commitment to community development

“It’s important to show the world that something good is happening,” said CEO of the Ayalim Association Sigal Barzelay.

 Sigal Barzelay, CEO of the Ayalim Association: "It's critical to bring young people to the Negev and the Galilee."

Yeshiva students return to Kiryat Shmona, begin blood donations during severe shortage

Many of the yeshiva students have also volunteered to help in the rebuilding efforts and care for residents who were unable to evacuate.

 Kiryat Shmona Hesder Yeshiva students donating blood during a severe shortage, January 8, 2024.

Ganei Tikva, Kiryat Shmona municipalities team up to rehabilitate the war-damaged northern city

Lizzie Deleriche, the mayor of Ganei Tikva, said Kiryat Shmona had “endured painful and complex damage” and that all of Israel is responsible for one another.

 Cleaning up rubble in Kiryat Shmona as part of a joint effort between Ganei Tikvah and Kiryat Shmona.

Rebuilding Israel's North post-Lebanon ceasefire will take five years

Reporter's Notebook: Two weeks after the ceasefire, almost no one has returned to the North.

 Hezbollah rocket hit Metulla house, northern Israel, December 9, 2024.

'We are on our own': Israel's northern residents on their hopes and fears after the ceasefire

For 14 months, an end to Israeli military operations in Gaza was Hezbollah’s condition for ceasing its attacks, which have claimed the lives of 45 civilians in Israel’s North.

 KIRYAT SHMONA is still a ghost town. Shops are shuttered and unmanned military vehicles are scattered around Israel’s northernmost city.