First Lebanon War

On This Day: Palestinian terrorists attempt assassinating Israeli ambassador, prompting Lebanon War

Shlomo Argov survived the London shooting attack but remained paralyzed, while Israel launched a campaign that expelled the PLO and set the stage for Iran's Islamic regime to establish Hezbollah.

Then-defense minister Ariel Sharon (R) meets with IDF soldiers after a battle with Palestinian gunmen at Beaufort Castle, southern Lebanon, June 7, 1982.
IDF shares footage of operation in Beaufort Ridge, May 31, 2026.

Return to Beaufort: Israel’s symbolic conquest of a Lebanese Crusader fortress - analysis

Israeli and Golani flags waving over Beaufort Ridge outpost, May 31, 2026.

Former commander of Beaufort Ridge warns against romanticizing operation, holding outpost

Yaakov Erez and Yitzhak Rabin

Yaakov Erez, former Maariv editor and Sokolov Prize winner, dies at 87


Israel's sixth president: Meeting Menachem Begin at the hospital

He sat in his wheelchair (which he now needed as a result of a hip operation), looking not like a charismatic, strong prime minister, but as a frail and vulnerable elderly man.

MENACHEM BEGIN just before his discharge from Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem; he had been a pneumonia patient for two weeks. He is surrounded by his doctors and nurse, with the writer extreme right. Directly behind him are director-general Prof. Jonathan Halevy and his physician, Dr. Efraim

Gantz warns Lebanon: IDF Gaza actions were tip of iceberg

IDF awards Lebanon Security Zone campaign ribbon in ceremony to officially recognize Israel’s 18-year occupation of Southern Lebanon as an official military campaign.

IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Aviv Kohavi awarded IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Aviv Kohavi awarded campaign tag.

Russia excavates Syrian cemetery, searching for missing IDF soldiers

If the reports are accurate, it may mean that the bodies of Israeli soldiers Tzvi Feldman and Yehuda Katz will finally be returned to Israel after nearly 40 years.

Soldiers loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad forces are deployed at al-Qadam area near Yarmouk Palestinian camp in Damascus, Syria April 29, 2018.

Nasrallah: Iran rebuilt Lebanon after war, Soleimani's death 'new age'

Nasrallah stressed that Iran treated Hezbollah and the Palestinian terrorist groups as allies, not tools.

Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei with Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah and IRGC Quds Force Commander Qasem Soleimani

Keeping guni's memory alive

The artistic venture started out seven years ago, the idea being to create animation films about victims of Israel’s wars and of acts of hostility committed here.

Giora (Guni) Harnik and his mother, Raya

Israel repatriates mentally ill Lebanese man who crossed border fence

The man, identified as Ali Mrad, told authorities Hezbollah operatives made him do it.

peacekeepers patrol along the Israel-Lebanon border near the northern Israeli town of Metula

5 reasons why Israel is ready for war with Hezbollah in Lebanon

12 years ago, Hezbollah and Israel were left gutted by a summer war that was costly for both sides.

Israeli soldiers hold an Israeli flag as they leave Lebanese territory during a second day of ceasefire during the Second Lebanon War, near the town of Menara August 15, 2006.

British and French Mandates

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Operation Mole Cricket 19: 34 years later, the IAF's most decisive victory remains the standard

To this day, the details of Operation Mole Cricket 19 remain classified.

Pilots gather before takeoff and the start of Operation Mole Cricket 19, in June 1982

JPost Editorial: Ten years later

As Israel marks the 10th anniversary of the Second Lebanon War, we must remain vigilant in the face of developments on the northern border.

AN ISRAELI soldier stands near a mobile artillery unit as it fires a shell into southern Lebanon on July 13, 2006, a day after IDF reservists Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev were abducted by Hezbollah