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Ido Shelem, center, financial manager of Kibbutz Manara, stands with Almog Levanon, left, and Uriel Weintrub, founders of Shuvu Manara, in the nursery school destroyed by Hezbollah rockets during the Israel-Hezbollah conflict and is now being rebuilt. (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel)
August 1, 2025, 7:02 am
Demobbed IDF troops rebuild kibbutz on Lebanon border to honor fallen friends
Iconic Kibbutz Manara saw 75% of its buildings damaged and only 40% of its population return after the war with Hezbollah; 10 new residents fresh out of uniform aim to revitalize community
By Diana Bletter
Igor Abramovich surveys heavy damage to a house from the conflict between Hezbollah and Israel in Kibbutz Manara, on the border with Lebanon, northern Israel, January 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
January 28, 2025, 10:46 am
Kibbutz Manara, destroyed by Hezbollah’s rockets, starts to pick up the pieces
Members of the community begin appraisal process to see what can be salvaged after vast majority of homes were destroyed or damaged in Hezbollah attacks
By Melanie Lidman
Ultra-Orthodox men make their way to Rav Ashi's tomb, which straddles the Israel-Lebanon border. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90, undated)
December 19, 2024, 7:11 pm
Four Israelis detained after entering Lebanon, reportedly to visit rabbi’s tomb
Police note illegal crossings punishable with up to four years in jail; IDF troops in Lebanon find and destroy Hezbollah rocket launchers, anti-tank missiles
By Emanuel Fabian
Former Kiryat Shmona mayor Prosper Azran stands in front of his mother's house, which had previously been destroyed by a Hezbollah anti-tank guided missile in Kiryat Shmona, on December 1, 2024. (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel)
December 2, 2024, 4:34 pm
Residents returning to Israel’s decimated far north worry their neighbors won’t come home
Some members of Kibbutz Manara return to discover widespread damage; in Kiryat Shmona, a former mayor says there should never have been an evacuation at all despite the dangers
By Diana Bletter
UTJ's Yitzhak Goldknopf, center, pictured with a map of prospective settlements in Gaza during a tour of the Gaza border area, November 28, 2024. Daniella Weiss is seen on the right. (Courtesy Yitzhak Goldknopf)
December 2, 2024, 1:43 pm
Daily Briefing Dec. 2: Day 423 – Haredi housing minister stirs pot with Gaza border visit
Political correspondent Tal Schneider discusses hostage talks and Goldknopf’s visit to the Gaza border; writer Diana Bletter reports on devastated northern towns
By Jessica Steinberg, Tal Schneider and Diana Bletter
Dean Sweetland walks past a warehouse that was hit by a rocket fired from Lebanon, in Kibbutz Malkiya in northern Israel, November 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
November 30, 2024, 10:16 am
Northerners are wary of returning to border communities: ‘The ceasefire is rubbish’
Many residents of battered border kibbutz communities no longer have homes, others are fearful that Hezbollah will return to threaten them
By AP and ToI Staff
File: A house damaged in a strike by Lebanon's Hezbollah terror group in Kibbutz Manara, northern Israel near the Lebanon border, on November 27, 2023. (jalaa marey / AFP)
December 24, 2023, 2:44 pm
Northern kibbutz says 86 of its 155 homes damaged since start of Hezbollah attacks
Manara’s community manager says it’s frequently in terror group’s sights; business chief says many residents have nowhere to return, laments rehabilitation funding challenges
By ToI Staff
Smoke rises from inside an Israeli army position which was hit by missiles launched by the Hezbollah terror group, as seen from Tair Harfa village, a Lebanese border village with Israel, south Lebanon, October 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
October 20, 2023, 5:03 pm
Army orders evacuation of Kiryat Shmona as terror groups keep up attacks from Lebanon
Soldier seriously hurt in shooting; IDF strikes five terror cells in southern Lebanon; dozens of rockets target Mount Dov, Metula; missiles hit army posts
By Emanuel Fabian
Israeli security forces inspect a site where a rocket launched from Lebanon landed in the northern city of Kiryat Shmona near the border on October 19, 2023. (Jalaa MAREY / AFP)
October 19, 2023, 1:31 pm
3 injured in rocket strikes on Kiryat Shmona as Lebanon border tensions spike
2 men, small girl hurt in direct hit on home amid barrage targeting Nahariya and other communities; Hamas branch in Lebanon claims launches; anti-tank missile attacks draw shelling
By Emanuel Fabian
Israeli soldiers guard on the border with Lebanon, May 16, 2023. (Ayal Margolin/ Flash90)
July 9, 2023, 2:04 pm
Around 30 Lebanese soldiers, Hezbollah members crossed briefly into Israeli territory
Mostly armed, uniformed troops, with handful of unarmed terror group activists, said to have spent 20 minutes over boundary last week; IDF asked UNIFIL to expel them
By ToI Staff
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