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First Lebanon War

Family members and mourners attend the funeral of IDF soldier Yehuda Katz (inset), whose body was returned from Lebanon this week, 44 years after he went missing in battle, at the Mount of Olives cemetery in Jerusalem, August 21, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
August 21, 2026, 5:11 pm
Yehuda Katz buried on Jerusalem’s Mount of Olives, 44 years after falling in Lebanon battle
Funeral held days after soldier’s remains were located and brought back to Israel; rabbi and tank commander say Katz showed that IDF service and Torah aren’t incompatible
By ToI Staff
From left: Zachary Baumel, Yehuda Katz and Zvi Feldman (Courtesy)
August 19, 2026, 4:02 pm
Yehuda Katz’s return closes painful Sultan Yacoub saga, but Lebanon mire endures
Return of remains of last missing soldier from disastrous 1982 battle closes 44-year chapter, as Israel again confronts risks of a prolonged military presence in its northern neighbor
By Nava Freiberg
Hezbollah supporters carry the Iran-backed terror group's flag while they ride a motorcycle past destruction, upon their return to their neighborhood in Beirut's southern suburbs, after a 10-day ceasefire with Israel came into effect, April 17, 2026. (Fadel Itani/AFP)
April 22, 2026, 11:50 am
As internal divisions simmer, Lebanese see echoes of last century’s civil war
Ex-fighters warn country nearing breaking point amid talks with Israel, sharpening rift between government and Hezbollah as well as sectarian fissures over who’s to blame for IDF strikes
By Maya Gebeily and Emilie Madi
Members of the Palestine Liberation Organization depart from Beirut, Lebanon, August 25, 1982. (AP/Saleh Rifai)
October 10, 2025, 4:09 pm
As Hamas pressured to leave Gaza, experts see echoes of 1982 PLO exit from Lebanon
Decades after Arafat was pushed out of Beirut, Hamas’s leaders may also choose exile over death; despite key differences, history shows what pitfalls may lie ahead for Israel
By Ben Sales
Sgt. First Class Zvi Feldman (Courtesy)
May 11, 2025, 11:14 am
Body of soldier Zvi Feldman, missing for 43 years, recovered from Syria by Mossad, IDF
Remains found in ‘heart of Syria,’ in ‘covert, complex’ operation by non-Israeli agents working for Mossad; officials vow to return 3rd missing soldier from 1982 battle of Sultan Yacoub
By Emanuel Fabian
John Lithgow as Roald Dahl (left) and Elliot Levey as Tom Maschler in Mark Rosenblatt’s play, 'Giant.' (Courtesy/ Manuel Harlan)
April 8, 2025, 9:15 am
Play about Roald Dahl’s antisemitism wins top UK theater awards
John Lithgow gets best actor prize for portrayal of author who sympathized with Hitler, slammed Israeli ‘bestiality’ in Lebanon war; ‘Giant’ also wins best new play
By Grace Gilson
Yasser Arafat claps his hands over his head as some delegates give him a standing ovation during the United Nations General Assembly in New York, November 14, 1974. The two delegates from Ireland, sitting in front row at left, remain seated. (AP Photo)
August 4, 2024, 6:23 am
Know thine enemy: When the PLO hosted 80 scholars at a Beirut Israel studies center
Historian Jonathan Marc Gribetz’s ‘Reading Herzl in Beirut’ excavates a forgotten decades-long PLO research center that helped shift some Palestinians’ thinking regarding Israel
By Matt Lebovic
Rescue workers search for survivors after an explosion at Israeli military headquarters in the Lebanese city of Tyre in 1982. (Wikimedia Commons/IDF Archive)
July 3, 2024, 7:33 pm
New probe finds 1982 blast at IDF’s headquarters in Lebanon war was suicide bombing
Officials had long claimed explosion which killed 91 in Tyre was a gas leak, but investigation headed by former general finds intentional attack to be far more likely
By Emanuel Fabian
October 9, 2023, 12:47 am
Oath of Blood
The chaos and devastation of war is impossible to grasp in the moment, so we cast our minds back. (Episode originally aired July 2017.)
Efraim and Shoshi Zinger in Israel after his release from Syrian prison in 1974. (Courtesy)
October 6, 2023, 4:35 pm
In an unusual love story, a hopeless optimist recalls surviving Syrian captivity
Efraim Zinger’s prison diary and his would-be wife’s journal serve as the basis for a new book about a family’s triumph over their Yom Kippur War trauma
By Canaan Lidor
Rescue workers search for survivors after an explosion at Israeli military headquarters in the Lebanese city of Tyre in 1982. (Wikimedia Commons/IDF Archive)
June 25, 2023, 6:31 pm
Israel launches formal inquiry into 1982 blast at IDF headquarters in Lebanon war
Officials long claimed that explosion which killed 91 people in Tyre was a gas leak, but probe launched last year says there’s reason to believe it was a Hezbollah suicide bombing
By Emanuel Fabian
Raya Harnik, right, and her son Gony, who would be killed in the 1982 First Lebanon War. (YouTube screen capture)
April 25, 2023, 4:18 pm
How one bereaved mother changed Israel’s Memorial Day and the country itself
Gony Harnik, 25, was killed in the first major battle of the Lebanon War. His mother’s poetry and activism would inject a new consciousness into the national ethos of commemoration
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Then-prime minister Menachem Begin during a debate in the Knesset on March 20, 1979. (AP Photo/Max Nash/File)
April 16, 2023, 9:37 pm
Aides speak of ex-PM Begin’s depression, dysfunction near end of time in office
Biographer says signs of mental illness were ‘very clear’ as premier struggled with Lebanon War fallout, wife’s death; in unaired interview segment, Begin said he took pills
By Michael Horovitz
Benjamin Netanyahu as a soldier in Sayeret Matkal. (Wikicommons/GPO)
April 11, 2023, 3:19 pm
‘You’re the refuser’: Netanyahu’s former commander says he evaded wartime service
PM’s office denies claim by retired Lt. Col. Shlomi Reisman, says he wasn’t even Netanyahu’s commander during Lebanon War
By Michael Horovitz
Israeli security forces guard during clashes between Jews and Palestinians in the West Bank city of Hebron, November 19, 2022. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)
November 20, 2022, 1:00 pm
Daily Briefing Nov. 20: Weekly Bible portion commemorations spark violence in Hebron
Emanuel Fabian on weekend events in Hebron, reopening of a cold case from the First Lebanon War; Amy Spiro on Zohar Argov’s troubling legacy, a 1st Jewish star on ‘Love is Blind’
By ToI Staff
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