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Rosh Hanikra

Civil defense members remove a body from the rubble of a residential building hit the previous day by an Israeli strike near the southern town of Burj al-Shamali, on the outskirts of Tyre, on May 27, 2026. (Photo by Kawnat HAJU / AFP)
May 27, 2026, 5:37 pm
Hezbollah claims clashes with Israeli troops north of Litani; IDF dismisses reports
Terror group reports ‘point-blank’ battle in Zawtar al-Sharqiyah amid IDF ground advance; IAF maintains heavy strikes, a day after reportedly killing 31, including Lebanese soldier
By Stav Levaton, Agencies and ToI Staff
People inspect the site of an Israeli strike in the southern Lebanese coastal city of Tyre on May 23, 2026. (KAWNAT HAJU / AFP)
May 23, 2026, 3:44 pm
IDF says it attacked Hezbollah sites, as at least 5 reported killed in south Lebanon
Military says overnight strikes targeted underground weapons production site in Beqaa and other infrastructure in Tyre, where state media reports ‘severe damage’ to a hospital
By Agencies, ToI Staff and Stav Levaton
A temporary military roadblock is set up near Rosh HaNikra in northern Israel, after four people were wounded in a Hezbollah drone attack in the area, May 14, 2026. (FLASH90)
May 14, 2026, 4:34 pm
4 civilians hurt in Hezbollah attack on north as Israel, Lebanon set for 3rd round of talks
One listed in critical condition; IDF strikes several towns after issuing warning; Israel to present framework for disarmament, long-term ties at highest level talks in decades
By Emanuel Fabian, Nava Freiberg, Nurit Yohanan, Agencies and ToI Staff
Ori Shaked holds up a charred robot vacuum in his house on Kibbutz Hanita that was destroyed in an October 13, 2023 Hezbollah rocket attack on January 6, 2025. (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel)
January 8, 2025, 1:37 am
Inside the Lebanon-border closed military zone, kibbutz members prepare to start over
The tenuous Hezbollah ceasefire is still in place as Hanita and Rosh Hanikra residents make rare visits to their homes to salvage what few belongings are not shattered
By Diana Bletter
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
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