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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 526

Melanie Lidman

Melanie Lidman

Released hostage Keith Siegel reunites with his family at Tel Aviv's Sourasky Medical Center (Ichilov Hospital) on February 1, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)
February 6, 2025, 8:17 pm
Freed hostages tell of deprivation in Gaza, urge return of all those still captive
Keith Siegel was made to lie down at all times for the last two months of captivity; Romi Gonen, so deprived of food, no longer recognized feeling of hunger upon her release
By Melanie Lidman
FILE: Released hostage Ilana Gritzewsky poses for a portrait in her apartment in Kiryat Gat, Israel, on December 15, 2024, near photos of her boyfriend, Matan Zangauker, who is being held hostage by Hamas in the Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
January 31, 2025, 5:17 pm
After initial ecstasy of freedom, released hostages face long road to recovery
‘I don’t think my brain has really grasped everything,’ says Ilana Gritzewsky, who came back in November 2023
By Melanie Lidman
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
Holocaust survivor Naftali Fürst pauses during an interview at home in Haifa, January 2025. (AP/Maya Alleruzzo)
January 24, 2025, 9:02 am
‘For 60 years, I didn’t talk’: How one survivor made Holocaust memory his mission
Naftali Fürst was 12 years old when he was sent to Auschwitz; now, on the 80th anniversary of its liberation, he will return to the Nazi death camp for a ceremony, his fourth visit
By Melanie Lidman
Journalist Moshe Nussbaum attends a ceremony at the Israel Police headquarters in Jerusalem on September 5, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 8, 2025, 3:05 pm
AI helps veteran Israeli TV reporter return to the air after disease took his voice
Channel 12’s Moshe Nussbaum was diagnosed with ALS two years ago, which made him unable to speak clearly and seemingly ended his decades-long career; now he is making a comeback
By Melanie Lidman
A man rests by a row of empty shops near the Church of the Nativity, where Christians believe Jesus Christ was born, ahead of Christmas in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, December 17, 2024. (Mahmoud Illean/AP)
December 23, 2024, 2:55 pm
Somber Bethlehem readies for another Christmas under shadow of war
Dearth of tourism since Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attack leaves West Bank city with empty streets, empty shops and empty guestrooms at what should be most wonderful time of the year
By Melanie Lidman
Bullet holes cover the bedroom wall of hostage Ariel Bibas, 4, in Kibbutz Nir Oz, June 21, 2024. The name 'Ariel' appears on the wall in the top-right corner. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
July 12, 2024, 5:26 pm
‘This was a place of joy’: Time stands still in empty bedrooms of hostages held in Gaza
Families reflect on significance of captives’ inner sanctums, some of which bear witness to October 7 onslaught, while others exude an untouched tranquility
By Oded Balilty and Melanie Lidman
Participants at the Nova Healing Concert in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Thursday, June 27, 2024. This was the first Tribe of Nova mass gathering since the Oct. 7, 2023 cross-border attack by Hamas terrorists who killed hundreds at the Nova music festival and kidnapped others to Gaza. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
June 28, 2024, 4:48 pm
Survivors of Hamas massacre at Nova music festival unite to build a healing community
Tribe of Nova took shape as a robust support network for those who lived through the Hamas slaughter of 364 at the October 7 festival; it just held its first mass gathering
By Melanie Lidman
File: Writer Sami Michael in Jerusalem in 2004 (Flash90)
April 2, 2024, 6:25 am
Sami Michael, Iraqi-born and award-winning Israeli author and activist, dies at 97
Michael was known for his focus on oppressed minorities and the challenges faced by Jews from Arab countries in the state’s formative years
By Melanie Lidman
Maya Elharar, evacuated with her family from Kiryat Shmona, holds her dog in her hotel room in Tiberias, northern Israel, March 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
March 19, 2024, 1:19 pm
Evacuees from Lebanon border harbor few hopes they’ll return home anytime soon
As southern evacuees trickle back, some 80,000 residents still displaced from northern Israel grapple with rockets, tight living quarters and dispersed families
By Melanie Lidman
Vered Libstein poses for a portrait among anemone wildflowers in bloom near Kibbutz Or HaNer in southern Israel, Monday, Feb. 12, 2024 (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
February 16, 2024, 10:05 pm
South Israel was filled with blood, death. Brilliant red flowers now bloom among ashes
Vered Libstein founded the festival celebrating the blossoms 19 years ago; her husband, son and mother were all murdered on Oct. 7; ‘Life is stronger than everything,’ she says
By Melanie Lidman
Aleksandr 'Shura' Uman, left, and Egor Bortnik perform during the Bi-2 rock band concert in Moscow, Russia, December 1, 2011. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, File)
February 1, 2024, 11:36 am
Dissident Russian rock band Bi-2 lands in Israel after deportation from Thailand
Bands members, four of whom are reportedly Israeli, arrested last week after concert in Phuket following suspected Kremlin pressure
By Melanie Lidman
US President Joe Biden is greeted by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) after arriving at Ben Gurion International Airport, on October 18, 2023, in Tel Aviv. (AP/Evan Vucci)
January 13, 2024, 2:43 pm
Despite close support, US struggling to sway Israel on way forward with Palestinians
The Biden administration clearly sees moves toward a Palestinian state as the best way forward for Israel and the region, but Jerusalem vehemently disagrees
By Ellen Knickmeyer, Matthew Lee and Melanie Lidman
Oren Shmueli, left, and Hai Ashkenazi sift through material from a burned home in Kibbutz Nir Oz, looking for remnants that can help identify victims on November 9, 2023. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)
November 17, 2023, 1:35 am
Archaeologists sift through devastation to help families of Oct. 7 victims gain closure
For weeks, archaeologists have been searching the burned homes of the Gaza border communities, using methods honed for historical excavations to help try to identify modern remains
By Melanie Lidman
Thousands attend a rally in Tel Aviv calling for the release of Israelis held kidnapped by Hamas terrorists on November 11, 2023. (Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
November 12, 2023, 3:29 am
‘A nightmare, we’re not living’: Tens of thousands rally for hostages’ return
Protests held in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and other cities as relatives mark 36 days since hundreds taken captive by Hamas; some demonstrators decry government inaction
By Melanie Lidman and Jessica Steinberg
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