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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 588

Nitzana

Cpt. (res.) Iftach Gorny (IDF)
March 2, 2025, 6:42 pm
Cpt. Iftach Gorny, 51: Dairy farmer who helped found border town
Killed battling Hamas gunmen near Yated on October 7
By ToI Staff
Sgt. Maj. (res.) Liran Mones Almosnino (Courtesy)
January 7, 2025, 8:39 pm
Sgt. Maj. (res.) Liran Almosnino, 42: Shepherd and ‘man of nature’
Killed battling the Hamas invasion of Kibbutz Holit on October 7
By ToI Staff
Land designated by the Trump plan to become a Palestinian enclave, just inside the Israel-Egypt border, on February 3, 2020. (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel)
February 5, 2020, 11:35 am
Trump peace plan offers land without people to people who don’t want the land
With no warning, Israeli farmers on Egypt border find themselves set to be surrounded by Palestinian enclaves. Asks one: Does this look like a map put together by serious people?
By Jacob Magid
A bullet that hit a home in Nitzana and was apparently fired from Egypt, December 20, 2018. (Courtesy)
January 2, 2019, 8:21 am
Egyptian general visits Israeli youth village to apologize for stray fire
In December 20 incident, large 0.5-inch rounds fired during military drill in Sinai hit unoccupied trailer at Nitzana
By ToI Staff
A bullet that hit a home in Nitzana and was apparently fired from Egypt, December 20, 2018. (Courtesy)
December 20, 2018, 8:00 pm
Bullets fired from Egypt hit home in Israeli youth village
IDF says projectiles likely fired during military drill in Sinai, causing no injuries in Nitzana; local leader says it was the second such incident in weeks
By Michael Bachner
Illustrative: An undated image of a farmer in the western Negev inspecting a crop of cherry tomatoes. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)
April 29, 2017, 1:27 pm
Jamming Palestinian hunger strikers’ phones risks our crops, locals say
Negev residents say effort to disrupt communication between protesting detainees is also crippling computerized irrigation systems
By ToI Staff
Soldiers of the Caracal Battalion rest before a hike as part of their training on September 3, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
October 30, 2016, 3:36 pm
On Egypt border, mixed-gender unit fights old ideas and new foes
With nightly drug smugglings and threat of IS, the women and men of the Caracal Battalion are on alert for anything coming from Sinai
By Judah Ari Gross
Border Police commandos practicing a hostage-taking situation in a community in southern Israel, near the border with the Sinai Peninsula. (Screen capture Channel 10)
October 29, 2016, 8:12 pm
Elite border cops train for Islamic State attack inside Israel
Commandos see ongoing operations against smugglers as preparation for day when Sinai-based terrorists try to infiltrate
By ToI Staff
Palestinian divers from the al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas' armed wing, take part in a parade marking the 27th anniversary of the Islamist movement’s creation on December 14, 2014 in Gaza City. (photo credit: AFP/ MAHMUD HAMS)
May 18, 2015, 1:36 pm
Fearing naval attack, Israel bars scuba suit shipment to Gaza
Security officials suspect equipment seized at Nitzana border crossing was to be used by Hamas commandos in sea-based attack, in repeat of 2014 attempt
By Adiv Sterman
Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz (right), slipping the general's rank on Pundak's left shoulder. (photo credit: IDF Spokesperson's blog)
October 21, 2013, 3:09 pm
Israel’s newest general, 100 years old, finally heals his wounds
For two-thirds of his long life, Yitzhak Pundak battled to restore the reputation of the defenders of Kibbutz Nitzanim in the War of Independence. Finally, as he neared his centenary, he succeeded, and a promise by Moshe Dayan was honored at long last
By Mitch Ginsburg
An Israeli soldier standing along a section of newly built fence along the border, with the Sinai in the background. (Tsafrir Abayov/Flash 90)
July 14, 2013, 8:47 pm
Terrorists open fire on Israel from Sinai border
No reports of injuries in cross-border attack on IDF troops, as Islamists and Egyptians continue to battle in peninsula
By Asher Zeiger
Haim Berger, the wolfman and tour guide, in his Ramon Crater 'office' (photo credit: Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
March 13, 2013, 2:53 pm
For Israel’s Negev pioneers, a tough but fulfilling lifestyle
Conversations with several remarkable individuals about what it takes to live in the remote, spacious, silent south
By Jessica Steinberg
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