Tiberias

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

Three boys suffering from mild dehydration were rescued overnight after their rubber boat drifted into the Sea of Galilee near Tiberias, leaving them unable to return to shore.

United Hatzalah ambulance boat in the Sea of Galilee.
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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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

Palestinian suspected of impersonating undercover cop, sexual assault

The suspect then fled the scene having stolen the man's cell phone, but was apprehended an hour later by police in Afula.

Tiberias Central Bus Station

Government to inject $14.5m. into Tiberias tourism

Tiberias and the Sea of Galilee area was home to 11% of a record 12.1 million nights spent in hotels by foreign tourists in 2019.

LAKE KINNERET as seen from Tiberias