'I knew that if I wanted to advocate for the north, I needed to see it firsthand,' Oren, Israel's former Ambassador to the US, says of decision to rejoin the IDF after over a decade.
'We keep saying all the time that we are the only firefighters in the world that are fighting fire under fire,' Eddi Aharonoff, a spokesperson for the Fire Brigade said.
Hezbollah was supposed to have abided by Resolution 1701, which would have required it to retreat from the border with Israel to the Litani River in Lebanon.
Shalom Abudi, an employee of the Israel Electric Corporation, was among a group of electric workers dispatched to the area for infrastructure repairs when he became the victim of the Hezbollah missile attack.
'And Ben Haddad listened to king Asa, and he sent the captains of his armies against the cities of Israel, and he struck Ijon and Dan and Abel-Beth Maachah and all Kinereth with all the land of Naftali' (1 Kings 15:20)
The terror group reportedly demands the resolution of disputes at 16 points along the border, and wants Israel to halt work on a security barrier along the border.
According to the Antiquities Authority, the hiding caves of the site known as 'Einat Shu’a' are likely related to the Jewish revolts against the Roman Empire.
Mount Gilboa is a scenic mountain, offering many great hiking trails. Half of the mountain is barren as a result of King David’s curse (2 Samuel 1:21).
The artwork unearthed this year relates an episode from the Book of Judges, when the Israelites were oppressed for 20 years by Jabin, the king of Canaan.
The terrorists were caught over the weekend in northern Israel with the help of local Arab-Israelis, who refused to feed the hungry, exhausted fugitives and instead notified police.
Israel is responding to the rocket fire from Lebanon for the second time in three days. 'We will not let attacks on Israeli civilians go unanswered,' the IDF stated.
UWI was among those invited by the Israeli Ministry of Strategic Affairs for a briefing in the North, including a visit to a Hezbollah tunnel that was uncovered in December 2018 by the IDF.