<p><i>Israel National News</i> is stopping its round-the-clock news updates at this time in honor of the start of Shabbat in North America, where they are being written now.</p><p>Updates will resume Saturday night from Israel, following the conclusion of Shabbat at 18:13 Jerusalem time.</p><p>Shabbat Shalom!</p>

Seventeen injured, five moderately, after fire breaks out in Tiberias.

'I will never be able to pay you back for what you have done to me, it moves me to know that it was important to so many people that I return home.'

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara must approve firing of ISA chief Ronen Bar, Deputy Attorney General Gil Limon insists.

Explosion heard in Damascus

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Israel Katz, instruct IDF to prepare to protect Druze village of Jaramana, near Damascus in Syria.

Nimrod Cohen appeared in the background of a video released by Hamas showing the Horn brothers.

Rabbi Moshe Landa of Williamsburg instructed his congregation to pray for President Donald Trump during Sabbath services, deviating from traditional political neutrality in the Hasidic community.