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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 345

displaced people

Opening the new school year at the Horesh school in Zichron Yaakov, on September 1, 2024. (Gavriel Fiske/Times of Israel)
September 1, 2024, 5:33 pm
As northern evacuees begin school in Zichron Yaakov, some find a silver lining
At the Horesh combined primary and middle school in the northern town, displaced kids absorbed into the general student body are starting their second school year away from home
By Gavriel Fiske
Lior Golan and Oriana ben Aba Golan, evacuees from Kibbutz Nir Am near the southern Israeli border with Gaza, return to their home 10 months after the October 7 Hamas massacre. August 15, 2024. (Dor Pazuelo-FLASH90)
August 15, 2024, 8:31 pm
Thousands of residents return to homes near Gaza as state ends hotel funding for some
Around 3,700 Israelis go back to towns they left on October 7; residents of 10 communities badly damaged in Hamas attack have housing for at least another year
By Canaan Lidor
The Zomi camp for displaced people in southwestern Gaza. (Courtesy, Damour for Community Development)
August 9, 2024, 1:26 am
Palestinians, Israelis partner to bring off-grid solutions to Gaza camps
Damour for Community Development and Arava Institute for Environmental Studies want to show international donors value of wastewater treatment, desalination, solar energy solutions
By Sue Surkes
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich in Jerusalem, April 21, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
August 8, 2024, 7:07 pm
Fiscal deficit widens to 8.1% as state continues to shell out billions on war effort
Deficit climbs for fourth month above 2024 government budget ceiling of 6.6%, as spending on the war with Hamas reaches almost NIS 90 billion
By Sharon Wrobel
A community space and kitchen in the Zomi displaced people's camp in the Gaza Strip has been named for the Canadian-born Israeli peace campaigner Vivian Silver, who was murdered by Hamas terrorists in her home in Kibbutz Be'eri, close to the Gaza border, on October 7, 2023. (Courtesy, Damour for Community Development)
August 8, 2024, 2:10 pm
Israeli peace activist murdered by Hamas is memorialized in Gaza evacuee camp
Sign with Vivian Silver’s name and photo graces community facility in humanitarian zone in south Gaza
By Sue Surkes
Protesters rally in Tel Aviv's Hostages Square, marking 300 days in captivity for the hostages in Gaza and demanding an immediate deal for their return, on August 1, 2024. (Paulina Patimer/Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)
August 6, 2024, 4:47 pm
Some evacuated families of hostages said told to vacate government-subsidized homes
Tourism Ministry, which pays the rent to the landlords, says government has not extended funding past August; PM’s office: Funding to continue, issue only a ‘technical matter’
By ToI Staff
Illustrative. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a special cabinet meeting at the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem on Jerusalem Day, June 5, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 7, 2024, 9:13 pm
Cabinet slashes health, welfare and education to fund aid to displaced residents
Wide-ranging cuts come only days after Knesset allocates hundreds of millions of shekels in ‘surplus’ coalition funds to government ministries deemed superfluous by treasury
By Sam Sokol
Smoke rises from a rocket fired from Lebanon into northern Israel as it is seen from Kiryat Shmona, May 5, 2024. (David Cohen/Flash90)
May 10, 2024, 4:28 pm
Northern residents plan to ‘disengage’ from Israel in Independence Day protest
Residents and communities to hold a series of protests against government’s inability to allow some 60,000 residents, evacuated due to border fighting, to return to their homes
By ToI Staff
Military vehicles and cows are common sights in the Golan Heights, but are usually not seen together. (Uriel Heilman/ JTA)
May 7, 2024, 11:04 pm
Covering Israel’s war-torn north is an exercise in dodging danger
With the constant threat of missile fire from Hezbollah terrorists, life takes on a surreal quality as soldiers, checkpoints, warning sirens and evacuees become the new normal
By Uriel Heilman
Evacuated students walking down a path at their new school at the Ghetto Fighters' House in Kibbutz Lohamei Hagettaot, March 2024. (Diana Bletter)
April 16, 2024, 10:12 pm
Schools and students displaced in the north learn to deal with chaos sown by war
Finding new, safer locations with bomb shelters and operating short-staffed are just some of the challenges school administrators face under Hezbollah missile threat after Oct. 7
By Diana Bletter
Reserve soldiers from Brothers in Arms take part in a protest outside the Supreme Court in Jerusalem against the exemption of ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students from military duty, February 26, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 1, 2024, 7:56 am
With an ambitious civic agenda, Brothers and Sisters in Arms says it’s here to stay
The protest group founded by reserve soldiers last year wants involvement in education, community and employment issues, to strengthen democratic values in society
By Sue Surkes
Maya Elharar, evacuated with her family from Kiryat Shmona, holds her dog in her hotel room in Tiberias, northern Israel, March 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
March 19, 2024, 1:19 pm
Evacuees from Lebanon border harbor few hopes they’ll return home anytime soon
As southern evacuees trickle back, some 80,000 residents still displaced from northern Israel grapple with rockets, tight living quarters and dispersed families
By Melanie Lidman
Ron Rahamim. (Dafna Talmon)
February 24, 2024, 4:16 pm
Uprooted: Ron Rahamim, 36, from Moshav Mivtahim. This is his story
Ron Rahamim, 36, taught high school photography before taking sabbatical this year to pursue his art ● Evacuated from his home in the Gaza envelope to Tel Aviv ● This is his story
By Tamar Mor Sela
Sigal Chayak prepares a meal with her daughter Shani, in a host kitchen in Tel Aviv on February 13, 2024. (GIL COHEN-MAGEN / AFP)
February 18, 2024, 9:53 pm
Program pairs displaced Israelis with Tel Aviv kitchens to cook up some home comfort
Asif Culinary Institute of Israel brings evacuees from North and South to willing private homes for chance to prepare meals for their families
By AFP and ToI Staff
Roei Saban. (Dafna Talmon)
February 17, 2024, 4:41 pm
Uprooted: Roei Saban, 45, from Sderot. This is his story
Roei Saban, 45, divorced father of three serves as a reserve company sergeant major in the Jericho area, has no permanent place of residence since war’s start ● This is his story
By Tamar Mor Sela
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