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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 529

Nava Freiberg

United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) vehicles patrol the southern Lebanese city of Marjayoun, near the border with Israel, on November 29, 2024. (AFP)
March 13, 2025, 6:56 pm
Israel returns fifth Lebanese prisoner after border delineation talks
Hezbollah-linked outlet reports that 14 Lebanese detainees still held by Israel, including 7 alleged members of the Iran-backed terror group
By Nava Freiberg
Avinatan Or, a Nvidia employee, taken captive by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023 from the Supernova desert rave. (Courtesy)
March 12, 2025, 11:54 pm
Freed hostage says he saw Avinatan Or alive in captivity, marking first sign of life
Hostage families petition High Court over Gaza electricity cut, saying it endangers loved ones’ lives; Trump backtracks from plan to expel Palestinians from Gaza
By Lazar Berman, Nava Freiberg, ToI Staff and Agencies
Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar (R) and Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel inaugurate a “Media War Room” at the Foreign Ministry, March 11, 2025. (Mordechai Gordon/Foreign Ministry)
March 12, 2025, 6:41 am
Foreign Ministry opens ‘media war room’ to combat anti-Israel content
Ministry says diplomats and students will monitor news to ‘identify false or biased reports’ so spokespeople can then ‘debunk accusations and present Israel’s narrative’
By Nava Freiberg
A United Nations peacekeeping force (UNIFIL) convoy patrols next to Naqoura, in Lebanon near its border with Israel, ahead of negotiations between the two countries in the area, October 13, 2020. (Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP)
March 11, 2025, 7:41 pm
Israel to hold talks with Lebanon on land border, frees 5 detainees as goodwill gesture
Amid negotiations in Naqoura that establish 3 joint working groups, Israel agrees to hand back reported terrorist and 4 other Lebanese; IDF strikes Hezbollah operatives
By Lazar Berman, Nava Freiberg and Emanuel Fabian
Syrian attend the funeral of a relative, killed in the days of clashes between security forces and loyalists of the former government, in the town of Jableh in the coastal province of Latakia on March 10, 2025. (Photo by Abdulwajed HAJ ESTEIFI / AFP)
March 10, 2025, 8:22 pm
Sa’ar urges global leaders to denounce ‘pure evil’ of Sharaa’s Syria after killings
Foreign minister says Israel’s warnings over new Islamist rulers were accurate after over 1,000 killed in Alawite enclave; Sharaa dismisses Israel’s accusations as ‘nonsense’
By Nava Freiberg, Agencies and ToI Staff
Druze men seen during a funeral in Majdal Shams, February 14, 2025. (Michael Giladi/ Flash90)
March 10, 2025, 1:38 am
Cabinet okays NIS 4 billion plan to boost country’s Druze, Circassians over 5 years
Community leaders welcome investment, but call it only a ‘first step,’ and express hope it won’t ‘remain on paper’ like previous promises
By Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff
US president Donald Trump poses for photos with family members of Hamas hostage Edan Alexander, after visiting the gravesite of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson in New York, October 7, 2024. (AP Photo/ Yuki Iwamura)
March 9, 2025, 6:11 pm
US-Hamas talks focused on last living American hostage, Edan Alexander, group says
Political adviser to terror group’s leader says Hamas not opposed to releasing soldier; Hamas spokesman rejects extension of original deal’s first phase
By Agencies, Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff
Former Foreign Ministry director general Dore Gold in Jerusalem, June 1, 2015. (AFP/Thomas Coex)
March 3, 2025, 5:26 pm
Dore Gold, former UN ambassador and Netanyahu confidant, dies at 71
US-born diplomat served as Foreign Ministry director general, adviser to prime ministers, and president of a Jerusalem think tank
By Nava Freiberg
Trucks carrying humanitarian aid line up on the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip on March 2, 2025. (AFP)
March 2, 2025, 4:27 pm
Coalition lawmakers welcome Netanyahu’s decision to stop entry of aid into Gaza
Halt imposed as Israel accuses Hamas of refusing proposal to extend first phase of truce; terror group slams ‘cheap extortion,’ warns of consequences to hostages
By Sam Sokol, Lazar Berman, Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff
Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar meets with Jewish and pro-Israel leaders in Brussels, February 25, 2025. (Shalev Man/Foreign Ministry)
February 28, 2025, 12:14 pm
Israel decides to establish formal ties with trio of European far-right parties 
FM Sa’ar says opening of dialogue with Sweden Democrats, France’s National Rally, Spain’s Vox is based on their present actions, not antisemitic roots: ‘I didn’t see reason not to’
By Lazar Berman and Nava Freiberg
Opposition Leader Yair Lapid presents a plan for the post-war Gaza Strip, in Washington DC, February 25, 2025. (Screenshot/FDD)
February 25, 2025, 11:13 pm
Lapid presents Gaza ‘day after’ plan in DC, urges extended Egyptian takeover
Opposition leader sees proposal, that envisages Egypt overseeing the Strip for at least eight years, as complementary to Trump’s vision; Egypt said to reject the idea
By Lazar Berman and Nava Freiberg
Israeli reporter Itai Anghel (left) walks through a crowd of Syrians in Damascus days after the fall of Bashar al-Assad, December 2024 (Screenshot/Channel 12)
February 25, 2025, 7:18 pm
Days after Assad’s fall, Israeli reporter explores Iran’s ‘nerve center’ in Damascus
War reporter Itai Anghel finds piles of classified files, speaks to Syrian soldiers, and meets a Syrian Jew in ‘Uvda’ documentary aired Monday
By Nava Freiberg
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