'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.'

<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.

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

Explosion heard in Damascus

Archaeology students excavating Warsaw’s main Jewish cemetery are uncovering a forgotten world.

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

Omer Shem Tov, freed from Hamas captivity earlier this month, is released from the hospital and returns home to Herzliya, is greeted by city residents who gathered to greet him.