Alerts went out around the Kinneret on Wednesday morning.
“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.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The alleged terror cell also planned assaults on Israel Defense Forces soldiers and suicide bombings.
Authorities close off hiking trails in the Negev and near the Dead Sea for fear of flash floods.
Trucks and boats were set on fire to get victims to pay extortion fees.
The water is just 1.64 meters below the upper red line.
No more worrying about the (Sea of Galilee) Kinneret's water level dropping below the red line in drought years or from overpumping.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Israeli Health Ministry said that the bacteria likely originated in Syria, where there is currently a cholera outbreak.
With the Kinneret near maximum capacity, the unexpectedly stormy weather overnight ripped up the Tiberias promenade.
The Kinneret rose 2 centimeters and is currently 209.98 meters below sea level.
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.
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.
The rains have raised the Kinneret high enough to splash onto the Tiberias boardwalk - for the first time since 1992.
More than half that volume of water came from just the past 5 days of rain.
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.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
A particularly rainy winter has raised its level by nearly 4.9 feet.
By JNi.Media
The Water Authority's recent models for the autumn indicate a chance of yet another drought year.
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."
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."
The third earthquake today (plus an aftershock).
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.
Amazing hotel in an amazing location along the Kinneret beach.
A new infrastructure project will pump water back into the Kinneret, saving the Sea of Galilee and the Galil.
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.
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.
It may be the third missing person..
Three people went missing in the lake over Passover.
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.
By JNi.Media
Beyond its academic value, the conference sends a message challenging the validity and purpose of the BDS movement,
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.
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.
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."
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.
The surprising discovery supports the belief there used to be a Jewish settlement in the Kursi Beach National Park.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israel’s first wind farm was built 30 years ago in the Golan Heights,
Meir Ettinger, the Shin Bet's most wanted Jew, is suspected of leading a national underground revolutionary movement.
The suspects belonged to an infrastructure that tried to disrupt the May 2014 visit of Pope Francis.
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.
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.
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."
"He gives snow like wool; He scatters hoarfrost like ashes." - Psalms 147:16.
Even residents in Kfar Saba and upper Haifa may see snow, which also may fall on Ben Gurion Airport.
Heavy snow forces the Hermon ski slopes to close; Kinneret rises, but slowly.
Spend the holiday at a ‘home away from home’ in Northern Israel.
The Kinneret rose 2 cm yesterday, and 4.5 centimeters in the past 3 days.
The Kinneret rose 2.5 cm, just in the past 2 days.
Heavy snow will fall mainly in the north by mid-week, but even lower hills can expect at least a dusting.
Sometimes we get what we pray for.
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 […]
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 […]
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.”
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.
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 […]
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 in the Golan and Eastern Kinneret area forced to go to bomb shelters and Syrians battle right along the border.
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.
Snow and rain cover Israel.
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.
Storms and floods hit Israel, as the Kinneret rises.
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 […]
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.
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.
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.
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.
Heavy rains in Northern Israel help raise Kinneret's water level.
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.