Golan

June 1, 2019, 9:09 pm

IDF: 2 projectiles fired at Mt. Hermon from Syria; no injuries reported

Military says it is still investigating launches, which come days after Syrian air defense battery fired at Israeli jet

By Judah Ari Gross

An Israeli F-16. (Hagar Amibar/Israeli Air Force)

May 27, 2019, 10:12 pm

IDF says it bombed Syrian anti-aircraft battery that fired at Israeli jet

Syria claims Israeli retaliatory strike hit a military position in Quneitra region on Syrian Golan Heights, killing two soldiers

By Judah Ari Gross

An Israeli military position is seen on a hill over Kfar Chouba, southeast Lebanon. April 9, 2019. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

April 12, 2019, 1:52 am

Trump’s Golan move irks Lebanese who lay claim to land held by Israel

Residents near border still hope to win Shebaa Farms from Israel, though some politicians say claims are an excuse for Hezbollah to retain weapons

By Bassem Mroue

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, Republican US Senator Lindsey Graham, right, and US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman visit the border between Israel and Syria at the Golan Heights, Monday, March 11, 2019. (Ronen Zvulun/Pool via AP)

March 22, 2019, 3:41 am

By recognizing Golan, Trump seen ‘solving’ a problem that doesn’t exist

The status quo on the plateau, in which Israel’s control was neither recognized nor challenged, will likely be upended by president’s move, and not in Israel’s favor, experts warn

By Raphael Ahren

A smoke trail of a Patriot missile that intercepted a Syrian drone that entered Israeli airspace from Syria, as seen over the northern Israeli city of Safed on July 13, 2018. (David Cohen/Flash90)

July 13, 2018, 3:22 pm

Israel shoots down Syrian drone flying over demilitarized zone

In second incident in week, IDF fires Patriot missile at UAV it says was operating in violation of 1974 ceasefire agreement

By Judah Ari Gross

A Syrian military position that was attacked by the Israeli Air Force on July 12, 2018, in response to a Syrian military drone that infiltrated into Israeli territory the day before. (Screen capture: Israel Defense Forces)

July 12, 2018, 1:09 am

IAF strikes Syrian army posts near border in response to drone infiltration

Israeli military confirms attacks on three targets after Syrian UAV is downed over the Sea of Galilee

By TOI staff, AFP and Judah Ari Gross

November 26, 2017, 8:30 am

Wrong number: Are Israel’s phone companies systematically overcharging?

Consumer groups report endless complaints from Israelis who say they are mischarged, lied to, pushed into debt, and even stopped at the airport for fees they never agreed to

By Simona Weinglass

A wind farm near Kibbutz Ein Zivan on the Golan Heights (Flash90)

March 25, 2017, 7:30 am

Kibbutz movement to celebrate 50 years of settlements in Golan

Left-wing members protest event, saying ‘celebrating occupation’ is wrong

By JTA

Iranian Revolutionary Guards' Quds Force commander Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani. (YouTube screenshot)

October 15, 2015, 8:57 am

Iran’s Soleimani visits Syrian Golan as Tehran bolsters war effort

Powerful head of Quds Force is in Syria to oversee new push against anti-Assad rebels, visits near border to boost troop morale after setbacks

By Avi Issacharoff, TOI staff and AP

A smattering of MKs in the Knesset plenum on May 4, 2015. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

May 7, 2015, 1:26 pm

61 is the loneliest number

Netanyahu may have eked out a coalition at the last second, but papers report his quest for partners is not over as he’ll find it nearly impossible to scrape by with 61 seats

By Joshua Davidovich

Illustrative photo of exploratory oil drilling near the village of Aderet near Beit Shemesh on Jan 6, 2010. (Photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash 90)

December 23, 2014, 10:23 pm

Golan exploratory oil drilling to begin within the month

High Court throws out petition from environmentalists to stop project, which will drill 10 wells

By Melanie Lidman

A tractor on Tuesday morning at the first site where Afek hopes to begin drilling. A temporary injunction stopped work at the site on Monday night (Courtesy photo: Adam Teva VDin)

September 30, 2014, 7:36 pm

High Court freezes preparation for Golan oil drilling

Temporary injunction issued against Afek Oil and Gas to stop pre-drilling work in southern Golan

By Melanie Lidman

Illustrative photo of an oil rig (photo credit: Dwight Burdette/Wikimedia Commons/File)

September 18, 2014, 9:27 pm

Israel’s oil wars shift to the Golan Heights

Environmentalists made headlines two weeks ago when they blocked a controversial oil shale pilot project in the Shfela; largely unnoticed, the same US parent company has won approval for exploratory drilling up north

By Melanie Lidman

An Israeli watchtower above the Druze village of Majdal Shams, near the Israeli-Syrian border (photo credit: Lior Mizrahi/Flash90)

September 12, 2014, 7:59 am

Syria, a paradise lost for the Golan’s Druze

As the civil war rumbles on across the border, apple farmers on the Israeli side find themselves cut off from buyers, relatives

By DAPHNE ROUSSEAU

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

January 30, 2014, 4:56 pm

Liberman: Settlers won’t live under Palestinian rule

Foreign minister says Bennett was right to apologize to PM, then contradicts recent leak from PMO officials about settlers in Palestine

By Itamar Sharon