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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 568

IDF Operation Northern Shield

From left, Defense Minister Benny Gantz, President Reuven Rivlin, IDF chief Aviv Kohavi and former national security adviser Yaakov Amidror give the Israel Security Prize to a recipient at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on September 13, 2020. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)
September 13, 2020, 10:50 pm
Classified defense projects receive Israel’s top security prize
President says winners exemplify ‘Israeli chutzpah’; defense minister hails recipients, praises normalization with Bahrain, UAE
By Judah Ari Gross
Defense Minister Benny Gantz visits the site of a proposed Military Intelligence base that will be constructed in southern Israel. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)
July 13, 2020, 7:56 pm
Three classified defense projects win top security prize
Mossad agent ‘Aleph’ to receive lifetime achievement award; defense minister, president praise recipients for contributions to state security
By Judah Ari Gross
Israeli troops search for attack tunnels dug into Israel from southern Lebanon that the Israeli military believes Hezbollah planned to use in future wars, in January 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)
January 19, 2020, 10:06 am
IDF begins installing tunnel-detecting sensors along Lebanese border
Military launches effort a year after exposing Hezbollah underground cross-border passages, says it believes there are still no new tunnels into northern Israel
By Judah Ari Gross
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu showcases material he says was obtained by Israeli intelligence from Iran's nuclear weapons archive, in Tel Aviv on April 30, 2018. (Amos Ben-Gershom (GPO)
July 2, 2019, 9:54 pm
Iran atomic archive stealers, Hezbollah tunnel-busters win security prize
Award also given to creator of Shin Bet cyber unit that created program used to thwart dozens of terror attacks, team that made advanced missile
By Judah Ari Gross
Illustrative: Army cadets simulate a takeover of a Lebanese village at the IDF Officers' Training School, June 2019 (Israel Defense Forces)
June 9, 2019, 1:09 am
Israeli army cadets train for takeover of Hezbollah-held Lebanese village
Joint drill involving troops on the ground and in the air focuses on cooperation between various units as they seek to destroy a hidden-away enemy
By ToI Staff
IDF seals off what it says is the longest cross-border attack tunnel dug by Hezbollah from Lebanon into Israel, May 30, 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)
May 30, 2019, 5:43 pm
IDF destroys Hezbollah ‘flagship’ attack tunnel after studying it
Military fills underground passage with cement, ensuring it can’t be used, says it’s deprived Lebanese terror group of central aspect of attack plans
By Judah Ari Gross
The IDF reveals what it says is the longest cross-border attack tunnel dug by Hezbollah from Lebanon into Israel, May 29, 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)
May 30, 2019, 4:33 am
IDF reveals ‘longest, most significant’ Hezbollah tunnel on northern border
Military says Lebanon terror group’s cross-border tunnel has infrastructure for electricity, ventilation, communications; subterranean passage to be destroyed in coming days
By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross
Illustrative: A Hamas tunnel from Gaza to Israel, 2014. (AP Photo/Jack Guez, Pool)
May 22, 2019, 6:40 am
How the IDF let a rabbinical mystic search for border tunnels, then spurned him
Officers who went with him claim Galilee-based Rabbi Yehuda found 6 tunnels on Lebanon border, and 31 on Gaza border, years before IDF exposed them. Today, the army is dismissive
By Avner Hofstein and Anabel Zamir
Brigadier-General Rafi Milo, commander of the 91st Galilee Division (right), awards a citation to Major Y of the Engineering Corps for his part in Operation Northern Shield. (IDF)
March 20, 2019, 9:37 pm
Citations awarded to unit that led operation to destroy Hezbollah tunnels
IDF says Operation Northern Shield, which took four years from planning to completion, ‘stripped Hezbollah of an important component of its offensive plan’
By ToI Staff
Commander-in-chief of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp, (IRGC) Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi, left, greets Sheikh Naim Qassem, deputy Secretary General of Lebanons Hezbollah, during a religious ceremony in Tehran, Iran, on August 18, 2007. (AP Photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian)
February 4, 2019, 4:07 am
Hezbollah number two says Israel is not ready for conflict with Lebanon
Naim Qassem denies Netanyahu allegations that Iran controls Lebanon through the terror group: ‘We have only 3 out of 31 ministers in the government’
By ToI Staff
PM Netanyahu speaking to visiting UN ambassadors outside his Jerusalem office, February 3, 2019 (Haim Tzach/GPO)
February 3, 2019, 2:50 pm
Iran controls new Lebanese government, Netanyahu tells visiting UN envoys
Before group of 40 ambassadors head to northern border to inspect Hezbollah attack tunnel, PM urges them to ‘vote the truth’
By Raphael Ahren
Former head of the air force, Maj. Gen. (res.) Amir Eshel speaks at the Institute for National Security Studies conference in Tel Aviv on January 28, 2019. (INSS)
January 28, 2019, 11:58 pm
Ex-air force chief: Only Russia can get the Iranians out of Syria
Former head of IDF’s fight against Tehran declares victory, but his retired comrade says military might will not be enough
By Judah Ari Gross
Israeli troops search for attack tunnels dug into Israel from southern Lebanon that the Israeli military believes Hezbollah planned to use in future wars, in January 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)
January 28, 2019, 4:30 pm
Israel alerts UN to more Hezbollah tunnels in Lebanon, heading toward Israel
None of these tunnels has reached the Israeli border, unlike the six tunnels destroyed by the IDF in recent weeks
By Avi Issacharoff
Former IDF chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot, right, is interviewed by Amos Yadlin at the Institute for National Security Studies annual conference in Tel Aviv on January 27, 2019. (INSS)
January 27, 2019, 10:13 pm
Ex-IDF chief dismisses Hezbollah claim of more cross-border attack tunnels
Gadi Eisenkot, in first remarks as a civilian, praises Israel’s achievements in fighting Iran and its proxies, defends decision not to attack in Gaza
By Judah Ari Gross
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on December 16, 2018. (Abir Sultan/Pool/AFP)
January 27, 2019, 2:53 pm
PM: Nasrallah ’embarrassed’ by Israel’s success in destroying Hezbollah tunnels
Netanyahu says terror group in financial difficulties after sanctions reimposed on Iran; dismisses its leader’s claim subterranean passages predate 2006 war
By ToI Staff and Agencies
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