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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 529

Yair Revivo

Israeli military vehicles cross a cement barrier on the border between Israel and the southern Lebanese village of Dhayra, on February 17, 2025 (Jalaa MAREY / AFP)
February 18, 2025, 2:59 pm
Welcome to the era of the buffer zone
Whereas, in the past, Israel has semi-occupied adjacent territory, now it’s creating sterilized strips that potentially redefine its borders
By Amir Ben-David
Likud MK Eliyahu Revivo attends a special committee meeting in the Knesset in Jerusalem, December 25, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 8, 2023, 1:53 pm
Likud MK threatens to stop voting with coalition after his Shin Bet bill is nixed
Eliyahu Revivo wants security agency involved in fighting Arab crime despite objection by AG and Shin Bet; his brother, Lod mayor, threatens to recruit MKs to bring down government
By ToI Staff
Medics at the scene of a shooting in Lod, where a 30-year-old gardener was shot dead, October 11, 2022. (Courtesy)
October 11, 2022, 6:39 pm
Lod man shot dead in suspected revenge killing
30-year-old victim was gardener employed by city’s municipality, which describes shooting as ‘a family conflict in the Arab community’
By Michael Horovitz
Illustrative: A Magen David Adom (MDA) ambulance at the scene of a suspected murder in Ramle, August 27, 2022. (MDA)
September 10, 2022, 5:28 am
Arab youth shot dead in northern Galilee town; 5 injured in shootings in 24 hours
Zein Awad, 20, killed in Arab town of Mazra’a, near Nahariya, the latest murder in a devastating wave of violence gripping Arab communities
By ToI Staff
Officers at the scene of a double murder in Lod, on September 5, 2022, where a mother in her 30s and her 14-year-old daughter, a twin, were killed. The surviving twin was seriously injured. (Israel Police)
September 7, 2022, 8:55 am
Surviving Lod twin moved for her safety, as police deploy to contain murder wave
Report says Maryam Hajaj, 14, whose mother and twin sister were shot dead, will be taken to safe location; exiled father, who has crime ties, says God will ‘take revenge’
By ToI Staff
Manar Hajaj and her daughter Khadra. (Courtesy, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
September 6, 2022, 8:53 am
Lod mayor on murder of mother, teen: Israel would come to a stop had they been Jews
Yair Revivo says country must ‘wake up’; second daughter seriously injured; investigators think attack could have been revenge for husband’s actions
By ToI Staff
A car belonging to an Arab family sits torched from recent clashes between Arabs, police and Jews in the mixed Arab-Jewish town of Lod, central Israel, May 25, 2021 (AP Photo/David Goldman)
June 8, 2021, 11:35 am
‘We’re not interested in mingling’: Mixed city of Lod still on edge after unrest
Uneasy calm settles over Jewish-Arab city after last month’s violence; some Arab residents point to election of mayor as turning point due to his ties with national-religious group
By Ilan Ben Zion and David Goldman
Lod Mayor Yair Revivo voting at a polling station in the mixed Jewish-Arab city of Lod when he was running for mayor, October 22, 2013. (Yossi Zeliger/FLASH90)
May 23, 2021, 4:06 pm
Lod mayor threatens to report Arab councilor to Shin Bet security service
Fida Shehade claims municipality neglecting safety of Arab residents; Mayor Yair Revivo: ‘Stop inciting. We have had enough already’; city files police complaint against her
By ToI Staff
Arab Israelis gesture and wave Palestinian flags during the funeral of Mousa Hassouna in the central Israeli city of Lod near Tel Aviv, on May 11, 2021. Hassouna was killed during clashes with Israeli security following an anti-Israel demonstration over tensions in Jerusalem. (AFP)
May 21, 2021, 1:41 pm
In Lod unrest, Arab fury against ‘settler’ Jewish newcomers boils to surface
Residents of working class city say riots tapped into tensions with Garin Torani, a group of national-religious newcomers that reject being anti-Arab and say they are there to stay
By Aaron Boxerman
A woman walks through burnt rubble in Lod on May 19, 2021, as clean-up and rebuilding begin in the central city following riots a week earlier. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
May 21, 2021, 1:40 pm
Hateful rioting in Lod gives way to cautious rebuilding, but unease persists
Jews and Arabs continue to blame each other and the police, as the scarred mixed city slowly licks its wounds and comes back to life
By Lazar Berman and Aaron Boxerman
Ra'am party chief Mansour Abbas meets with Lod Mayor Yair Revivo on Sunday, May 17, 2021 (screenshot: Kan)
May 17, 2021, 3:03 am
Ra’am leader Abbas faces backlash in his party for meeting right-wing Lod mayor
Islamic Movement secretary condemns ‘inappropriate, mistaken’ visit with Yair Revivo, a former Likud campaign chief who is disliked by many of Lod’s Arab residents
By Aaron Boxerman
Border Police forces in Lod during riots and clashes between Arab and Jewish residents, December 11, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
May 12, 2021, 7:15 pm
Police impose overnight curfew in Lod after mass rioting
Clashes break out for 3rd night, police car torched, despite order barring residents of central city from leaving their homes between 8 p.m. and 4 a.m.
By ToI Staff
Israelis carry out Torah scrolls from a torched synagogue in the central Israeli city of Lod, following a night of heavy rioting by Arab residents in the city, on May 12, 2021 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 12, 2021, 4:34 pm
After Lod synagogues torched, Rivlin accuses ‘bloodthirsty Arab mob’ of ‘pogrom’
President calls for rioters to be brought to justice, denounces ‘shameful’ silence of Arab leaders; Netanyahu says events ‘remind us of scenes from our people’s past’
By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff
The Daily Briefing
May 12, 2021, 1:10 pm
Daily Briefing May 12 – Is Hamas spurring Arab Israelis to intifada?
Tune in Sunday through Thursday to hear ToI editors and reporters quickly catch you up on what’s important today
By ToI Staff
The aftermath of riots in the central Israeli town of Lod, seen in the early hours of May 12, 2021. A state of emergency was declared after hours of Arab mob violence (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
May 12, 2021, 10:36 am
Massive forces sent to Lod as Netanyahu vows to restore order with ‘iron fist’
Synagogues torched in widescale Arab riots described by city’s mayor as ‘Kristallnacht’ and ‘civil war’; 3 Jewish suspects remanded over fatal shooting Monday of Arab man
By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff
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