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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 533

northern Israel

Carmela Keren Yakuti poses for a picture outside her house as residents return to their homes in Dovev, a moshav or cooperative agricultural community in northern Israel close to the border with Lebanon on March 3, 2025 (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)
March 8, 2025, 8:16 pm
‘Great to be back home’: Israelis returning to north describe joy, trepidation
Some communities are seeing quick resurgence of residents, while others are still largely empty amid destruction caused by lengthy war
By AFP and ToI Staff
Adeb Mazal, head of the Bedouin village Arab al-Aramshe, stands in the community center that was destroyed in an April 2024 Hezbollah rocket attack on March 2, 2025. (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel)
March 4, 2025, 8:28 am
Bedouin and Jewish residents who evacuated from north return home to mourn and rebuild
With schools now open, the communities of Arab al-Aramshe and neighboring Kibbutz Adamit in the Western Galilee rethink their ‘naivete’ about dangers beyond the border
By Diana Bletter
A picture taken from the Israeli side of the border with the Gaza Strip shows an Israeli army tank stationed on a hill overlooking northern Gaza on February 12, 2025. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)
February 23, 2025, 11:56 pm
IDF raises readiness along Gaza border, while ending civilian restrictions in north
Ramped-up preparedness on Gazan front comes amid talk of possible return to fighting, but not in response to concrete threat near border; no changes to instructions for civilians
By Emanuel Fabian
The village of Hamaam, in northern Israel, November 29, 2010. (Ori~, Wikimedia Commons)
February 19, 2025, 9:46 am
Teenager shot dead in Hamaam, as violent crime continues to surge
Alaa Tuafra, 18, found dead in his home in northern Israel; 36 Arab Israelis murdered so far this year
By ToI Staff
Shay Herz stands on the porch of his house in Mattat, northern Israel, with a view of Lebanon in the background on January 28, 2025. (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel)
February 5, 2025, 12:53 pm
‘Fear is now in our DNA’: With pause in Hezbollah attacks, two border towns regroup
The 15-month war took its toll ‘not only physically but also emotionally’ on residents evacuated from Mattat, and those who stayed put in the Druze town of Hurfeish
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
Israeli soldiers and ultra-Orthodox Jews at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site in the Old City of Jerusalem, July 10, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
January 8, 2025, 2:24 pm
Daily Briefing Jan. 8: Day 460 – IDF needs Haredi soldiers, but can it accommodate them?
Military reporter Emanuel Fabian speaks about new efforts and challenges the army faces even as the attorney general calls for drastically ramping up number of ultra-Orthodox recruits
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Emanuel Fabian
Watching planes take off at Ben Gurion International Airport, August 26, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
January 7, 2025, 2:23 pm
Daily Briefing Jan. 7: Day 459 – Will new law bring airlines back to Israel’s skies?
Arab affairs reporter Gianluca Pacchiani discusses hostage talks and Hezbollah; tech editor Sharon Wrobel reviews central bank comments, funds for the north, and foreign airlines
By Jessica Steinberg, Gianluca Pacchiani and Sharon Wrobel
A moving truck is one of the few vehicles in this neighborhood in Kiryat Shmona. (Uriel Heilman/ JTA)
December 19, 2024, 9:37 am
Despite Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire deal, northern residents fear returning home
While the conflict is officially over for now, many Israelis near the border are wary of October 7-like attacks and future wars with the Lebanese terrorist organization
By Uriel Heilman
View of the Druze town of Majdal Shams, Golan Heights, northern Israel, February 11, 2021. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)
December 16, 2024, 12:53 am
Cabinet approves $11 million plan to double population of Golan Heights
Money to go toward education, renewable energy, establishment of a student village, and a plan for absorbing new residents in Israel’s northern region
By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff
Moshe Weinstein, 76, an Israeli farmer, touches the ladder used by his son Omer at the site of his killing by shrapnel from a rocket launched by Hezbollah from Lebanon, at his apple farm in Metula, northern Israel, December 1, 2024. (REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov)
December 3, 2024, 7:40 pm
Israeli farmer who lost son to Hezbollah rocket tries to restore his orchard
‘I came and saw the worst thing possible to see,’ says Moshe Weinstein, who found his son, along with four Thai workers, lying dead in his apple orchard
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Students return to Tel Hai Elementary School after it was closed during the war with Hezbollah, December 1, 2024. (Ynet screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
December 1, 2024, 5:40 pm
Children return to schools in north as Hezbollah ceasefire holds
Education minister fetes resumption of class for 150,000 students; father in village where schools remain closed says institutions hosting evacuees not adequately supported
By ToI Staff
An Israeli couple observe the damaged buildings in a village in southern Lebanon as they stand near the Israeli-Lebanese border, during the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, in northern Israel, Saturday, Nov. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
November 30, 2024, 9:24 pm
With ceasefire holding, Home Front Command eases restrictions in northern Israel
New guidelines allow for schools to operate if they have adequate shelter and for gatherings of 200 people in open spaces and 600 in closed spaces
By Emanuel Fabian
People pose for a picture on a burnt Hezbollah rocket launcher in the southern Lebanese village of Kafr Tibnit on November 27, 2024. (Mahmoud ZAYAT / AFP)
November 27, 2024, 3:19 pm
IDF warns Lebanon truce violations ‘will be answered with fire’; troops shoot at suspects
Army stresses no civilian movement allowed south of Litani River as some return to villages where troops still deployed; soldiers detain 4 Hezbollah members who approached them
By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies
Hezbollah's chief spokesman Mohammed Afif speaks during a press conference in Dahiyeh, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Nov. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
November 17, 2024, 5:08 pm
Hezbollah media chief killed in IDF strike on central Beirut
Mohammed Afif targeted at Syrian Ba’ath Party offices, terror group says, confirming death; military carries out new wave of strikes in Dahiyeh stronghold south of Beirut
By Emanuel Fabian
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