IDF responds with artillery fire; army orders communities near to northern border to open bomb shelters; no injuries reported

Missiles cause no damage or injuries, day after three projectiles fired from Lebanon, raising fears that northern front could heat up

Israel fires tank rounds at rioters who break through fence on Lebanese frontier, set fires near Metulla; protests held across Muslim world

Annual event for poets and scribes -- including A.B. Yehoshua, Nurit Zarchi and Erez Bitton -- will take place over Shavuot in the northern town

A cornucopia of royal, or Oncocyclus, irises, are flowering in a rainbow of colors from northern to southern Israel, one of the few places in the world they can be found

The usual gathering of poets and writers in Israel's northernmost town will go on, but virtually

IDF, Lebanese military do not immediately comment on incident, which follows days of back-and-forth threats