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Kinneret

IDF & Security / News Briefs / Iraq

Israel Intercepts Iraqi-Launched Drone

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Alerts went out around the Kinneret on Wednesday morning.

Israel / Chessed and Tzedaka

14th Annual Swim4Sadna Kinneret Swimathon for Women

By Jewish Press News Desk

“Some very courageous women who have faced unspeakable tragedy during the current war, are joining the swim this year, as well as a group of young women from Sadnat Shiluv, who are a source of inspiration for the other swimmers.”

Terrorism / News Briefs / Israeli Arabs

Israeli Arab Indicted for Planning to Poison Sea of Galilee

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

The alleged terror cell also planned assaults on Israel Defense Forces soldiers and suicide bombings.

Israel / News Briefs / Weather

Kineret Water Level Rises Amid Heavy Rains in Israel

By Pesach Benson / TPS

Authorities close off hiking trails in the Negev and near the Dead Sea for fear of flash floods.

Police and Crime / Bedouin / News Briefs

14 Bedouin Arrested on Suspicion of Extortion

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Trucks and boats were set on fire to get victims to pay extortion fees.

The Environment

Sea of Galilee Rises Over the Weekend

By Pesach Benson / TPS

The water is just 1.64 meters below the upper red line.

Israel / The Environment / Video of the Day

Watch: Keeping the Kinneret Always Topped Off

By Jewish Press News Desk

No more worrying about the (Sea of Galilee) Kinneret's water level dropping below the red line in drought years or from overpumping.

Israel / Syria / News Briefs / Health and Medicine

Israel Protecting Water Sources after Detecting Cholera

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

The Israeli Health Ministry said that the bacteria likely originated in Syria, where there is currently a cholera outbreak.

Video of the Day

Stormy Weather Tears Up Teveria

By Video of the Day

With the Kinneret near maximum capacity, the unexpectedly stormy weather overnight ripped up the Tiberias promenade.

Israel / News Briefs / The Environment / Weather

Kinneret Rising

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Kinneret rose 2 centimeters and is currently 209.98 meters below sea level. 

Israel / Travel / The Environment

Kinneret is Almost Full, but its Beaches Remain Empty

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

Just inches from its highest level in 20 years, the Kinneret’s biggest fans remain barred from its shores due to current travel restrictions.

Israel / News Briefs / The Environment

Kinneret Water Level Hits 16-Year High Point

By Israel Hayom

Israel’s largest freshwater source is only 7.3 inches short of maximum capacity, with more rain forecast for later this week.

Israel / The Environment / Video of the Day / Weather

Watch: Kinneret on the Boardwalk

By Video of the Day

The rains have raised the Kinneret high enough to splash onto the Tiberias boardwalk - for the first time since 1992.

Israel / News Briefs / The Environment / Weather

Kinneret Up One Meter Since Winter's Start

By Jewish Press News Desk

More than half that volume of water came from just the past 5 days of rain.

Israel / Travel / News Briefs

5 Missing on Capsized Boat in Kinneret Recovered

By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency

Emergency services received a report about a family of five, parents and their three children, who had not returned from a ride in a sailboat on the Kinneret.

Featured / Israel / Weather

After 5 Drought Years Kinneret Lake Reaching Black Line

By JNi.Media

The Water Authority's recent models for the autumn indicate a chance of yet another drought year.

Featured / Israel / On Campus / Education / Archaeology

Blue Eyed Blondes Invaded Israel 6,500 Years Ago: DNA Study

By JNi.Media

"This study of 22 individuals is one of the largest ancient DNA studies carried out from a single archaeological site, and by far the largest ever reported in the Near East."

Headline / Terrorism / IDF & Security / Syria / Russia / ISIS

Russia’s Command in Syria Thanks the IDF for Attacking ISIS

By JNi.Media

"All Islamic State terrorists and missile systems were destroyed by a pin-point retaliation strike of the Israel Defense Forces warplanes and artillery."

Israel / Weather

Another Earthquake Rattles Israel

By Jewish Press News Desk

The third earthquake today (plus an aftershock).

Featured / Government

Netanyahu: Israel to Pump Desalinated Water into the Kinneret

By JNi.Media

And so, Israel once again claims the role of the world's Desali-Nation, utilizing a process that extracts mineral components from saline water.

Featured / Israel / Science and Tech / Weather

Israel Plans to Refill the Kinneret

By Jewish Press News Desk

A new infrastructure project will pump water back into the Kinneret, saving the Sea of Galilee and the Galil.

Featured / Headline / Politics / Eye on "Palestine" / History / "Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords / Islamists / The Temple Mount / Jordan / Religion

Peace Partner: Jordan's King Vows to 'Stop the Judaisation' of Temple Mount

By JNi.Media

The Jordan Times' version of the King Abdullah's announcement Saturday already scrubbed out the anti-Semitic tidbit, but it was clear that the King is stressed enough by recent events to shake out the ant-Jewish genie in the bottle.

Photo of the Day

The Fishermen from Galilee

By Photo of the Day

Fishermen from Kibbutz Ein Gev on the fishing boat "Gil", on the sea of Galilee, Northern Israel. The fishing team, led by Menachem Lev, is composed of third-generation Kinneret fishermen as well as volunteers and new immigrants.

Featured / Israel / Health and Medicine / Science and Tech

Israeli Doctors Implant 3D-Printed Nose

By JNi.Media

The surgery was performed on Thursday morning, March 30, and lasted a mere 30 minutes. Shortly after the operation, the patient reported feeling well and anxious to go back to his martial arts training.

Politics / News Briefs / Boycott / BDS / Health and Medicine / On Campus / Education

Anglo-Israel Cardiovascular Conference Defies Academic BDS

By JNi.Media

Beyond its academic value, the conference sends a message challenging the validity and purpose of the BDS movement,

Politics / Government / News Briefs / Jordan / Science and Tech

Israel Weighing Moving Desalinated Water to Drought-Plagued Kinneret

By JNi.Media

Israeli farmers upriver from the Kinneret have been refused an increase of 11 billion gallons annually, precisely the amount Jordan continues to siphon from the lake for its own agriculture.

Israel / News Briefs / Photo of the Day / Science and Tech

Island Reappears in Drying Lake Kinneret While Jordan Keeps Siphoning

By JNi.Media

Jordan, which hasn't made an investment in water preservation, will continue to receive more than a billion and a half cubic feet of water every year.

IDF & Security / Syria / Politics / News Briefs

Israeli Provisions Causing Rift among Syrian Rebels

By JNi.Media

"We condemn the insult our people have sustained in the liberated Al-Quneitra district in the form of food supplies awarded by the Zionist entity which is repressing the Golan which was sold out by the regime."

Israel / News Briefs / Science and Tech / On Campus / Education

Israeli Elementary School Children Take Pictures from Edge of Space

By JNi.Media

A group of ambitious students and parents from Hod Hasharon last week shot a meteorological balloon 15 miles up, almost reaching the edge of the earth's atmosphere.

Israel / News Briefs / Archaeology

1,500 Year Old Hebrew Inscription Discovered on East Coast of Sea of Galilee

By Jewish Press News Desk

The surprising discovery supports the belief there used to be a Jewish settlement in the Kursi Beach National Park.

Israel / News Briefs

Shin Bet Arrests Grandson of Meir Kahane for 'Nationalist Crimes'

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Meir Ettinger, the Shin Bet's most wanted Jew, is suspected of leading a national underground revolutionary movement.

Police and Crime / News Briefs / Jerusalem / Judea & Samaria / Settlements

Police Charges Five Hilltop Youth with Arson of Church at the Kinneret

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

The suspects belonged to an infrastructure that tried to disrupt the May 2014 visit of Pope Francis.

Israel / US / News Briefs / Business and Economy / Religion / Judaism

US Entrepreneur Turns Kosher Vodka into Spiritual Experience

By Kosher Today

His mission was to have vodka produces from the seven species of the land of Israel - figs, dates, pomegranate, wheat, barley, olive and grapes.

IDF & Security / Jewish / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / Judea & Samaria / Religion / Settlements / Intifada

Palestinian Authority Arabs Hurl Firebomb at Jews at Yosef's Tomb

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

The foreign and local media are telling the world that a few lunatic Jews tried to burn a church but are silent on wholesale Palestinian Authority hate.

Israel / News Briefs / Religion / Judaism

Fanatics Suspected of Arson of Church on the Kinneret

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Vandals left graffiti that quoted a prayer in which it is written "cut off their false idols" but forgot the verse from the Torah that "you shall set a king over yourself."

Israel / News Briefs / Weather

Heavy Snow on Golan to Spread to the Negev Desert

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

"He gives snow like wool; He scatters hoarfrost like ashes." - Psalms 147:16.

Israel / News Briefs / Weather

Snow on Thursday, Summer on Monday

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Even residents in Kfar Saba and upper Haifa may see snow, which also may fall on Ben Gurion Airport.

Israel / News Briefs / Weather

Snow, Lightning and Floods in Northern Israel in Photos

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Heavy snow forces the Hermon ski slopes to close; Kinneret rises, but slowly.

Travel / Product Promotion

Kinar Galilee Hotel

By Jewish Press Staff

Spend the holiday at a ‘home away from home’ in Northern Israel.

Israel / News Briefs / Weather

Kinneret up 13 Centimeters

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Kinneret rose 2 cm yesterday, and 4.5 centimeters in the past 3 days.

Israel / News Briefs / Weather

Kinneret up 11 Centimeters

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Kinneret rose 2.5 cm, just in the past 2 days.

Israel

US Issues Travel Warning as Snowstorm Nears Israel

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Heavy snow will fall mainly in the north by mid-week, but even lower hills can expect at least a dusting.

Israel / News Briefs

Another Deluge of Rain on the Way but No Snow Except on Hermon

By Jewish Press News Desk

The second storm of the young winter is headed for Israel with more needed rain but no snow, except on the Hermon mountain. Forecasters predict that it will rain on Eilat, an event that usually occurs only two or three times a year, and that up to three inches of rain will fall in the […]

Israel / News Briefs

Precipitation in Jerusalem 50% of Annual Amount

By Jewish Press News Desk

Torrential rains and the "snowstorm of the century” last week have left Jerusalem with 51 percent of its annual amount of precipitation, according to observations by the Israeli Meteorological Service, and the winter has barely begun. Be'er Sheva, where many areas still are flooded, now has accumulated 63 percent of is annual rainfall and more […]

Jerusalem

Wicked Storm from Russia ‘Attacks’ Israel with Rain and Snow

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Israelis have prayed for rain in a dry November and now are getting the dividends in spades, thanks to a rare early winter storm “from Russia with love.”

Israel / News Briefs

Official Winter Forecast Indicates Kinneret May Reach Flood Level

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

It has been more than 20 years since the dam at the Kinneret had to be opened to prevent flooding. Thanks to desalinated water, the flood gates may have to be opened again this year.

Israel / News Briefs

Fifth Earthquake in a Week in Kinneret Region

By JTA

A minor earthquake, the fifth in a week, shook up residents in the area of the Kinneret (Sea of Galilee) Tuesday morning. The temblor, which measured 3.3 on the Richter scale and was centered just northwest of the Sea of Galilee, was felt from Tiberias up to the Golan Heights. It came a day after […]

Israel / News Briefs / Archaeology

Dramatic Kinneret Discovery: Climate Crisis Ruined Ancient Empires

By Jewish Press Staff

If the effects of “global warming” today are going to be anything like those of the 3,200-year-old drought and cold wave that, according to research in the Kinneret, existed in the Middle East, watch out.

Israel / Syria / News Briefs

Golan and East Kinneret Residents Evacuate to Bomb Shelters

By Jewish Press News Desk

Israel in the Golan and Eastern Kinneret area forced to go to bomb shelters and Syrians battle right along the border.

Israel / News Briefs

The Kinneret Continues to Rise

By Jewish Press News Desk

Just since Monday, the Kinneret rose another 2 centimeters to 210.445 meters below sea level, and is now standing at 255 centimeters above the lower red line. In the past 6 days the Kinneret has risen 11 centimeters.

Israel / News Briefs

The Kinneret is Rising

By Jewish Press News Desk

In the past 24 hours, the Kinneret rose 22 centimeters. At it's last measurement, it was at 211.50 meters below sea level. With the rainstorm currently hitting Israel, the Kinneret is expected to rise even higher.

Israel / News Briefs

The Kinneret Continues to Rise

By Jewish Press News Desk

Over the past few days the Kinneret has been steadily rising, and on Saturday it rose by 12 centimeters reaching 212.07 meters below sea level, which is 93 centimeters above the lower red line. The Kinneret is now 327 centimeters below its maximum capacity which is at 208.8 meters below sea level. The Kinneret's highest […]

News Briefs

Kinneret Water Level Rises

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Kinneret Bot reports: In the last 2 days the water level of the Kinneret rose 2cm to -212.38m, 62cm above the lower red line. This rise has been due to the rain that Israel has been having over the past 2 days.

Jewish / Health and Living

New Yoga Course Has Jewish Women Striking Kosher Pose

By Malkah Fleisher

Women who seek the opportunity to do Asanas in an environment which is more Hoshannah than Ganesha – and teach other women to do the same - can now sign up for a special course designed especially for Jewish Yoga aficionadas who want to teach the healing art to others.

Israel / SciTech

Israel to Launch Google Street View

By Malkah Fleisher

Famed Google Maps application Street View, which is a technology featured in Google Maps and Google Earth providing 360-degree panoramic views from positions along streets throughout the world, will be launched in Israel on Sunday.

Israel / News Briefs

Since Thursday Kinneret Level Rises 7.9 Inches

By Tibbi Singer

Large amounts of water that swept through northern Israel and led to a strong flow of streams have produced exceptionally high figures for the National Lake's level. The Kinneret water is now at about 80 centimeters (31.5 inches) above the "lower red line." While rain may be ceasing soon, the snow thaw is expected to add even more water in the spring.

News Briefs

Water Level in Lake Kinneret Rises 11 Centimenters

By Jewish Press Staff

Heavy rains in Northern Israel help raise Kinneret's water level.

Potpourri

The Kalef Family Formerly of Neve Dekalim; Now Of Nitzan

By Jewish Press Staff

The family: Parents Avinadav and Hanna Kalef; son, Ortal; daughter, Kinneret and son, Ronen. All of three Kalef children married while the family lived in Gush Katif and are themselves today, parents.

Serials

Getzlight – Chapter III

By Ruchama Feuerman

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