Tiberias

Tiberias man charged with sexually abusing two brothers when they were nine

In some instances, prosecutors alleged, he prevented one of the brothers from leaving the place where they were and instructed him to keep the abuse secret.

An illustrative image of a man in handcuffs, being arrested.
 Jane Kiel.

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United Hatzalah ambulance boat in the Sea of Galilee.

Three teenage boys rescued by United Hatzalah in Sea of Galilee after drifting to deep waters

Rockets fired from southern Lebanon are intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome air defence system over the Upper Galilee region in northern Israel on August 23, 2024.

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Jacob Hotel: Israel welcomes a new chain

The new chain includes five unique hotels located in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Tiberias, Nahariya and Hadera.

The Sea Life Nahariya

Israeli woman murdered in Uruguay, daughter main suspect

Hershtein's daughter confessed during the investigation to having physically fought with her mother, who fell, hit her head, and died.

Crime scene tape.

30-year-old stabbed in chest after asking passenger to wear mask on bus

The suspect, a resident of Tiberias, is known to the police, but does not have a criminal record.

A bus driver sits in a bus and wears a face mask for fear of the coronavirus in downtown Jerusalem, March 16, 2020.

Doctors extract fishhook from fisherman's eye and manage to save it

Some two days after the surgery, the fisherman reportedly felt better and even started seeing shadows and light in the injured eye.

The team fo dcotors and medical staff who saved the fisherman's eye.

24-year-old evacuated with hypothermia as Israel prepares for snowstorm

"If the passers-by who saw him had not called us at the 101 emergency line, the event could have ended in tragedy," MDA paramedic Ohad Porat said.

Jerusalem prepares snow plows ahead of expected snowfall, on February 16, 2021.

Ancient marketplace in Tiberias may have been one of Islam's first mosques

The excavations estimate that what was unearthed underneath the structure — the outer layer of a mosque — might actually date back to 635 CE, possibly constructed by a friend of the Prophet Muhammad.

Valeria Fenik works at a digging site in the Givati Parking Lot excavation grounds, at the City of David National Park, on July 22, 2019. The most recent digging site currently under work is attributed to the Muslim, Byzantine, and early Roman periods.

Islamic-era candle molds found near Tiberias

Findings could add to historians’ understanding of those who lived near the Sea of Galilee in the early Islamic period.

The Islamic-era candle mold found in Tiberias.

So many synagogues: Tiberias

The city's Jewish community traces back to 1740s under the patronage of Daher El Omar, who persuaded the aged sage Rabbi Chayim Abulafia of Smyrna to rebuild the desolated community.

TIBERIAS GREAT Synagogue

Police searching for man suspected of brutally attacking his wife

Police suspect that the victim's husband, a 40-year-old resident of Arraba, is responsible for the attack, following a dispute between them.

The 40-year-old suspect that fled the scene after allegedly crashing into his wife's car and stabbing her several time, Nov. 16, 2020.

Tiberias man arrested for molesting 11-year-old girl

The investigation raised suspicions that Agbaria used to also have conversations of a sexual nature with a friend of the victim (also 11 years old) and tried to persuade her to meet with him as well

Suspected pedophile Muhammad Agbaria