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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 351

First Lebanon War

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
Rescue workers search for survivors after an explosion at Israeli military headquarters in the Lebanese city of Tyre in 1982. (Wikimedia Commons/IDF Archive)
November 17, 2022, 11:24 pm
Israel reopens probe into deadly 1982 blast at army headquarters during Lebanon war
Explosion that killed 91 in Tyre is widely believed to have been a suicide bombing by Hezbollah terror group; officials have so far said it was a gas leak
By Emanuel Fabian
A screenshot from an undated video showing Ahmad Motevasselian, military attache of the Iranian embassy in Beirut, right, who is one among four Iranian officials who went missing in Lebanon during the country's war with Israel in 1982. (Screenshot/Twitter)
July 6, 2022, 1:31 pm
Iran says it’s still looking for 4 diplomats whose disappearance it blames on Israel
Marking 40th anniversary of Lebanon incident, Iran’s foreign ministry says it is ‘continuing serious efforts’ to determine their fate
By AFP
Defense Minister Benny Gantz speaks in the northern town of Kiryat Shmona marking 40 years since the outbreak of the First Lebanon War, June 22, 2022. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)
June 23, 2022, 11:50 am
At Lebanon war memorial, Gantz says next operation to be ‘powerful and accurate’
If needed, Hezbollah will pay a ‘heavy price,’ says defense minister at event marking 40 years since First Lebanon War; Israel, US said to discuss action plans for such a war
By Emanuel Fabian
Israeli troops in Lebanon, 1982. (Michael Zarfati / IDF Spokesperson's Unit)
June 19, 2022, 9:04 am
40 years after the First Lebanon War, Israel’s wounds still aren’t healed
As country ponders complex legacy of 1982’s Operation Peace for Galilee, the fear of getting stuck in hostile territory and the distrust of leaders remain
By Lazar Berman
Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett with Minister of Foreign Affairs Yair Lapid during a discussion and a vote on the vote on the settlement bill at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem on June 6, 2022 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 7, 2022, 1:59 pm
Daily Briefing June 7: Vote throws coalition off balance; nations discuss Iran
Political reporter Carrie Keller-Lynn reviews Knesset developments and her visit to Homesh; diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman discusses Iran nuclear talks and first Lebanon war
By ToI Staff
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah speaks via a video link in the southern Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh, Lebanon, January 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
February 16, 2022, 8:08 pm
Nasrallah claims Hezbollah can turn rockets into precision weapons with Iran’s help
Terror chief also says his group is manufacturing its own drones, condemns regional normalization agreements with Israel
By ToI Staff
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