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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 365

Rosh Hanikra

The Iron Dome air defense system fires to intercept rockets launched from Lebanon, as seen from Haifa, September 27, 2024. (AP/Maya Alleruzzo)
September 27, 2024, 3:00 pm
Israeli moderately hurt by shrapnel as Hezbollah barrages target Tiberias, Haifa
IDF hits dozens of Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, as alleged Israeli strike said to kill 5 soldiers in Syria; Iraqi militia says it shot drones, missiles at Israel, but army unaware
By Emanuel Fabian
Officials inspect damage after a rocket fired from Lebanon hit the northern town of Kiryat Shmona, December 27, 2023. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)
December 27, 2023, 8:01 pm
Northern towns rocked by heaviest Hezbollah barrages since outbreak of war
No injuries, but buildings in largely evacuated Kiryat Shmona suffer damage as at least 34 rockets fired from Lebanon, day after Israeli strike kills Hezbollah man and 2 others
By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies
File: View of the border between Israel and Lebanon, near the town of Rosh Hanikra, October 27, 2022. (David Cohen/Flash90)
April 13, 2023, 11:44 am
Unarmed man crosses Lebanon border, is arrested by IDF troops amid high tensions
Apparent Syrian work migrant suspected of climbing along cliff face near Rosh Hanikra; is handed over to Shin Bet for questioning
By Emanuel Fabian
Rosh Hanikra railway tunnel (Rimonah Traub, 2012, via Wikimedia Commons)
July 19, 2022, 9:12 am
Hezbollah demands return of border rail tunnel in likely bid to torpedo Israel talks
Minister aligned with terror group says passage, closed since Israel’s creation in 1948, is Lebanon’s sovereign territory; remark seen as trying to complicate maritime negotiations
By ToI Staff
An Israeli soldier opens the gates of the Rosh Hanikra border crossing between Israel and Lebanon in northern Israel, on October 14, 2020. (Ariel Schalit/AP)
December 30, 2021, 7:51 pm
Israeli civilian returned after crossing into Lebanon earlier this month — IDF
Many details of the case still unknown or classified, including why the Arab Israeli man decided to cross the border
By Judah Ari Gross
New chunks of tar washed up onto the Palmachim beach in central Israel, six months after an oil leak in the Mediterranean Sea, August 26, 2021. (Shlomi Amran, Israel Nature and Parks Authority)
August 26, 2021, 2:54 pm
Tar still washing up onto Israel’s beaches six months after oil spill
Israel Nature and Parks Authority hopes to finish the delicate job of hand-cleaning rocks by year’s end
By Sue Surkes
Tar on the rocks at Achziv beach, February 25, 2021. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)
February 27, 2021, 12:37 pm
After a week of clean-up efforts, tar still ‘everywhere’ on Israel’s beaches
From large patches clinging to algae to tiny droplets in the sand, the dark, sticky material is defying painstaking efforts to decontaminate almost the entire coastline
By Sue Surkes
People clean tar from an oil spill in the Mediterranean sea in Gador nature reserve near Hadera, Israel, Feb. 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
February 22, 2021, 6:39 am
Tarred and shuttered: Anatomy of the oil disaster that closed Israel’s beaches
Experts call the spill Israel’s worst beach contamination in memory, and they fear much marine life has been wiped out. Nobody can say how long recovery will take
By Sue Surkes
Diver volunteers helping to collect trash from the Mediterranean Sea. (Dov Greenblatt, Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel)
October 25, 2020, 3:07 pm
Large volunteer sand and sea cleanup planned for Friday
Event in and around Mediterranean, Red Sea and Sea of Galilee aimed at pressing for more marine reserves and better enforcement against litterbugs, single-use plastic ban
By Sue Surkes
An ibex chats up a Tristram’s grackle at the Ein Gedi nature reserve .(Shmuel Bar-Am)
December 19, 2019, 5:00 pm
In 50-year record, 20 new nature reserves, national parks designated in 2019
But in year’s end roundup report, Israel Nature and Parks Authority director says lack of functioning government leaves funding for 2020 unclear, harms ability to plan
By Sue Surkes
A monkey, which escaped from a farm in southern Lebanon and crossed into Israel, explores a stack of empty fruit crates in the town of Dir al Assad. (Twitter screenshot, June 3, 2019)
June 4, 2019, 1:14 am
Lebanese monkey still on the run in northern Israel
The primate that infiltrated the border last week continues to show up in various towns in northern Israel, evading all efforts to capture it
By ToI Staff
A rehabilitated sea turtle heading back to the sea after being released by members of the national center for saving sea turtles. (illustrative photo credit: Gili Yaari/Flash90)
April 8, 2018, 9:17 am
Parks authority: Beached sea turtles likely dead when painted, abused
Animals found daubed with red paint on northern beach; officials say hundreds wash up each year, condemns ill-treatment of bodies
By Stuart Winer
Druze children pass Israeli army signs warning of a minefield on their way home from school in Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights. (Lior Mizrahi / FLASH90)
February 8, 2018, 8:56 pm
Army: Syrians shot at IDF drone, but hit a house in Israel
Attack comes day after air force reportedly conducted strike outside Damascus; in unrelated incident, Israeli sailors open fire at Lebanese buoys
By Judah Ari Gross
Supporters and members of the Women Wage Peace organization demonstrate outside the prime minister's residence in Jerusalem on August 26, 2015 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
October 5, 2016, 10:03 am
Hundreds of women march on Jerusalem for peace
Activists stage 2-week cross-country walk to capital where, accompanied by Liberian Nobel laureate, they will demand an end to conflict
By Stuart Winer
Hundreds of people join in the master class for the Second Annual International Day of Yoga on June 21, 2016 in Tel Aviv. (Melanie Lidman)
June 22, 2016, 1:09 am
Inner peace on International Yoga Day isn’t such a stretch
Over 300 people join 2nd annual International Yoga Day events in Tel Aviv; Jerusalem, Rosh Hanikra also host gatherings
By Melanie Lidman
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