Operation Shield and Arrow

23 Israeli, Jewish defining moments of 2023

This past year has been eventful, with ups and downs alike.

|ByMAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN
ISRAELIS DEMONSTRATE outside the residence of President Isaac Herzog as he hosts talks over judicial reforms, in Jerusalem in March.
Hezbollah and Syrian flags flutter on a military vehicle in Western Qalamoun, Syria August 28, 2017.

Israel's enemies' tactic is to let the country destroy itself - analysis

Israel's enemies think that if they try to attack Israel to provoke a military conflict, it will unite and strengthen the country.

|ByHERB KEINON
UN ENVOY Tor Wennesland meets Qatari envoy Mohammed Al-Emadi in Gaza City, earlier this year.

The UN hypocritically misrepresents the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - opinion

Wennesland seems to have either forgotten, or has deliberately chosen to ignore, that the Palestinians fired rockets from Gaza into Israel before Shield and Arrow.

|ByALAN BAKER
LONG HISTORY of bravery: Battling to extinguish a fire in a Kibbutz Nir Am restaurant, hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, 2007.

Sagui Gavri: The heart healer from Kibbutz Nir Am - opinion

Sagui Gavri heads Hadassah's Department of Pediatric Cardiology and performs heart surgery on Israeli and Palestinian children. He also lives in Nir Am, along the Gaza border.

|ByBARBARA SOFER

Jewish Agency head visits Israel's south under fire from Gaza rockets

Doron Almog offered support and assessed the emergency preparedness of immigrants and senior citizens amid ongoing rocket fire from Gaza.

MAY 11, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Chairman of The Jewish Agency Maj. Gen. (res.) Doron Almog visits seniors and new olim residing in Jewish Agency facilities in areas of southern Israel currently under rocket fire.

Iron Dome commander to 'Post': We are ready for anything

“Our unit is working extremely well, though nothing is ever 100%, but there is no gap and no technical failure,” the commander said.

MAY 11, 2023ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
Iron dome anti-missile system fires interception missiles as rockets are fired from the Gaza Strip to Israel, as it seen from Sderot on May 10, 2023.

Jerusalem life continues amid Operation Shield and Arrow

"Keep calm and carry on" motto of Israelis shopping in Mahaneh Yehuda market while rockets fall in the South.

MAY 11, 2023ByEMILY GOLDEN
Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda market

One killed, 10 injured after rocket hits Rehovot home

The Iron Dome suffered a malfunction on Thursday evening, allowing a Gaza rocket to hit the Rehovot building, IDF Spokesperson Brig.-Gen. Daniel Hagari revealed.

MAY 11, 2023ByYONAH JEREMY BOB, JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Police and rescue forces at the scene where a rocket fired from Gaza hit and damaged a house in Rehovot on May 11, 2023.

My Word: Rockets and attacks of hypocrisy

Two things appear to be immune to the Palestinian rocket attacks from Gaza: Israeli resilience and foreign double standards.

MAY 11, 2023ByLIAT COLLINS
ASHKELON RESIDENTS wait in a bomb shelter with a pet dog as sirens wail during a rocket attack from Gaza on Wednesday.

IDF has struck 191 Islamic Jihad targets in Gaza since Wednesday morning

The commander had taken part in firing rocket barrages into Israel during Operation Guardian of the Walls and Operation Breaking Dawn.

MAY 11, 2023ByYONAH JEREMY BOB, JERUSALEM POST STAFF
A view of a damaged building on the site of an Israeli airstrike amid Israel-Gaza fighting in Deir al-Balah town in the central Gaza Strip, May 12, 2023

The Palestinian Islamic Jihad is a problem for Hamas - analysis

The Palestinian Islamic Jihad has become a problem not only for Israel, but for Hamas too.

MAY 11, 2023ByKHALED ABU TOAMEH
Palestinian militants from Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad movement, hold a military parade as part of the 35th anniversary of the foundation of the movement, in Gaza City on October 5, 2022.

Egypt intensifies ceasefire efforts, sending envoys to Israel

Ceasefire must be unconditional, Jerusalem says, as US calls to deescalate fighting in Gaza

MAY 11, 2023ByLAHAV HARKOV
Smoke rises following an Israeli strike, in Gaza May 11, 2023.

Israel has not agreed to halt targeted killing of terrorists, source says

Stories started to emerge about negotiations over whether Israel would commit to ceasing targeted killings of top Islamic Jihad commanders in exchange for a ceasefire.

MAY 11, 2023ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
A damaged building, where Islamic Jihad commander Ali Ghali was killed in an Israeli strike, is seen in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip May 11, 2023

US blocked UN security council condemnation on Gaza - Israel's Erdan

“We succeeded in blocking condemnation of Israel with the help of the US, whom we worked in conjunction with,” Israel’s ambassador to the UN said.

MAY 11, 2023ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
ISRAEL’S AMBASSADOR to the UN Gilad Erdan speaks at a Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East in August. Last week, the UN General Assembly referred the West Bank issue to the World Court.