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Israeli Invasion Of Lebanon (2024–present)
On 1 October 2024, Israel invaded Southern Lebanon, marking the sixth Israeli–Lebanese conflict, Israeli invasion of Lebanon since 1978. The invasion took place after nearly 12 months of Israel–Hezbollah conflict (2023–present), conflict between Israel and Hezbollah. On 26 November, Israel and Lebanon 2024 Israel–Lebanon ceasefire agreement, signed a ceasefire agreement, mediated by France and the United States. The ceasefire went into effect on 27 November, though some attacks continue. Hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel erupted shortly after October 7 attacks, Hamas' October 7 attack on Israel, when Hezbollah joined the conflict in support of Hamas, launching rockets into northern Israel and the Israeli-occupied territories, Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Cross borders attacks resulted in a large number of displaced people on both sides of the border. Prior to the incursions, Israel had conducted major attacks in Lebanon including 2024 Lebanon electronic device ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Israel–Hezbollah Conflict (2023–present)
An ongoing conflict between the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah and Israel began on 8 October 2023, when List of projectile attacks from Lebanon on Israel and the Golan Heights, Hezbollah launched rockets and artillery at Israeli positions following Hamas' October 7 attacks on Israel. The conflict escalated into a prolonged exchange of bombardments, leading to extensive displacement in Israel and Lebanon. The conflict is part of the broader Middle Eastern crisis (2023–present), Middle Eastern crisis that began with Hamas' attack, with the short 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 2024 marking the largest escalation of the Hezbollah–Israel conflict since the 2006 Lebanon War. On 8 October 2023, Hezbollah started firing guided rockets and artillery shells at Israeli positions in the Shebaa Farms, which it said was in solidarity with Palestinians following the 7 October Hamas-led attack on Israel and beginning of Israeli bombing of the Gaza Str ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Israel Katz
Israel Katz (; born 21 September 1955) is an Israeli politician and member of the Knesset for Likud currently serving as Ministry of Defense (Israel), Minister of Defense and a member of the Security Cabinet of Israel. Katz has been recognized for his role in modernizing Israel’s transportation infrastructure, including the expansion of highways, the development of high-speed rail, and reforms to Israel’s ports that increased competition and reduced shipping costs. Katz has previously served as Agriculture Minister of Israel, Minister of Agriculture, Transportation Minister of Israel, Minister of Transport, Ministry of Intelligence Services, Minister of Intelligence, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Israel), Minister of Energy, Ministry of Finance (Israel), Minister of Finance, and twice as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Israel, Minister of Foreign Affairs. On 5 November 2024, it was announced that he would be nominated by Prime Minister Netanyahu as Defense Minister of Israel, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
36th Division (Israel)
The 36th Division "Ga'ash", also known as the Ga'ash Formation ("Rage"), is a regular-service division of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). It is subordinate to Northern Command. History The division was established in September 1954. Until 1958 it was led by ''Aluf'' Avraham Yoffe. At the time, divisional commands were mission-based commands without organic forces, but rather with troops apportioned according to given missions. It was led by ''Aluf'' Zvi Zamir from 1958 until he was succeeded by ''Aluf'' Uzi Narkiss in 1962, who led until 1965. From 1965 to 1969, it was led by ''Aluf'' Elad Peled. During the 1967 Six-Day War, the division led the battles in the northern West Bank, commanding the Barak Armored Brigade (then the 45th Armored Brigade), the 37th Brigade and forces from the 1st Brigade. Later, it oversaw the occupation of the southern Golan Heights. After the war, from 1969 to 1972, the division was led by ''Aluf'' Shmuel Gonen (Gorodish). From 1972 to 1974, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Axel Schulz (Admiral)
Axel Schulz is a German naval officer. Schulz joined the German Navy in 1990. Since 23 December 2020, Schulz has commanded the German contingent of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) at Naqoura, Lebanon Lebanon, officially the Republic of Lebanon, is a country in the Levant region of West Asia. Situated at the crossroads of the Mediterranean Basin and the Arabian Peninsula, it is bordered by Syria to the north and east, Israel to the south .... References Flotilla admirals of the German Navy Year of birth missing (living people) Living people {{Germany-mil-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aroldo Lázaro Sáenz
Lieutenant General Aroldo Lázaro Sáenz is a Spanish military officer who has served as the incumbent Head of Mission and Commander of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) since 2022. Life Son and grandson of Spanish soldiers, Aroldo Lázaro Sáenz was born in 1962 in Sidi Ifni, which at that moment was under Spanish control as the capital of the Ifni province. After attending school, Aroldo Lázaro Sáenz completed his training as an officer at the General Military Academy ''(Academia General Militar)'' in Zaragoza. He was also a graduate of the Army General Staff Academy ''(Academia Central de la Defensa)'' and completed his academic training in the fields of diplomacy, peace and security. During his military career as an officer in the army ''( Ejército de Tierra)'' he was a staff officer in a regiment of the "Guzmán el Bueno" X brigade in Cerro Muriano in the Córdoba province. He served as an officer in the headquarters of the European forces EUFOR ''( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Aoun
Joseph Khalil Aoun (; ; born 10 January 1964) is a Lebanese politician and army general who has served as the 14th president of Lebanon since 9 January 2025. He has previously served as the commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces, and is the fifth commander elected president. Early life and education Aoun was born on 10 January 1964, in the Beirut suburb of Sin el-Fil in the Metn District, the child of Hoda Ibrahim Makhlouta and Khalil Aoun. He completed secondary school at the Collège des Frères Mont La Salle. His family is originally from the town of Al-Aaishiyah, Southern Lebanon. Aoun enrolled at the Lebanese American University to pursue a bachelor's degree in political science and international affairs, which he earned in 2007. He also holds a bachelor's degree in military science from the Lebanese Army Military Academy. Military career Aoun joined the Lebanese army in 1983 and enrolled in the military academy during the Lebanese civil war. He trained abroad, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Sleem
Maurice Sleem (; born 5 February 1954) is a Lebanese politician who has served as the Minister of National Defense since 10 September 2021, after the formation of the third government of Najib Mikati. He is a retired Brigadier General in the Lebanese Armed Forces. During his 40-year career, he held key posts and staff assignments in Army operational Units. He also worked at the Lebanese Presidency for many years. He retired from the Army in 2012. On 10 August 2023, his vehicle was hit with bullets while he was inside, an incident which was referred to as an assassination attempt by local media. Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi said security services were investigating the incident to determine whether it was caused by indiscriminate gunfire or an attack. Decorations and medals Source: * Order of Merit (Lebanon), Lebanese Order of Merit 3rd Grade. * Order of Merit (Lebanon), Lebanese Order of Merit 2nd Grade. * Order of Merit (Lebanon), Lebanese Order of Merit 1st Grade. * Na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hashem Safieddine
Hashem Safieddine (1964) was a Lebanese Shia cleric who served as the head of Hezbollah's Executive Council from 2001 until his assassination in 2024. A maternal cousin of Hassan Nasrallah, Safieddine was considered the "number two" in Hezbollah for many years. In 2017, he was declared a Specially Designated Global Terrorist by the United States and designated as a terrorist by Saudi Arabia. Following the 2024 Hezbollah headquarters strike on 27 September 2024, during the Israel–Hezbollah conflict, in which Nasrallah was killed, Safieddine was named as his likely successor. On 3 October 2024, Safieddine was assassinated in an Israeli airstrike in Dahieh, south of Beirut. His death was confirmed later that month. Early life Safieddine was born in 1964 in Deir Qanoun En Nahr, southern Lebanon, to a respected Lebanese Shia family. His name is also rendered as ''Safi al-Din''. He was a maternal first cousin of Hassan Nasrallah. He was the brother of Abdallah Safieddine, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naim Qassem
Naim Mohammad Qassem (born February 1953) is a Lebanese Shia cleric and politician who became Hezbollah’s secretary-general on 29 October 2024, the fourth person to hold the position. He participated in the founding of Hezbollah in 1982, and previously served as the first deputy secretary-general from 1991 to 2024. Born in Kfar Kila, Qassem received a master's degree in chemistry from the Lebanese University in 1977. He worked as a chemistry teacher, before joining Amal, a political movement led by Musa al-Sadr. He studied theology under Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah. Following the Iranian Revolution, he helped found Hezbollah. In 1991, he was appointed as deputy secretary-general under secretary-general Abbas al-Musawi, a role he retained under Al-Musawi's successor, Hassan Nasrallah. He led the party's electoral campaigns, and held a leading intellectual and ideological role. Following the assassination of Hassan Nasrallah in September 2024, he was appointed acting se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yeftah Norkin
Yeftah Norkin (; born January 15, 1981) is an IDF officer with the rank of Brigadier General who serves as the commander of the 146th "Hamapatz" Division. Previously he served as the commander of the 7th Armored Brigade, the commander of the Ephraim Brigade (under the Judea and Samaria Division), an operations officer of the Galilee Division and the commander of the 77th battalion. Biography Norkin was born and raised in Moshav Beit Shaarim. He conscripted to the Israel Defense Forces to the Armored Corps in 1999, and was assigned to the 74th Battalion in the 188th Brigade. He went through a training course as a fighter, a tank commanders' course and an armored officers' course. At the end of the course, he was appointed commander of a tank platoon in Company V in the 77th Battalion in the 7th Brigade. During his position, he commanded an encounter with terrorists in Tulkarm and led the platoon in Operation Defensive Wall. He later served as a team commander in the Armore ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Jewish Press
''The Jewish Press'' is an American weekly newspaper based in Brooklyn, New York City. It serves the Modern Orthodox Jewish community. History The ''Jewish Press'' was co-founded in 1960 by Albert Klass and his brother Sholom Klass. The Klass brothers had previously co-published the ''Brooklyn Daily'' and ''Brooklyn Weekly'' newspapers in the 1940s. In 1960s, a group of leading rabbis approached the Klass brothers to publish a weekly English-language newspaper for Jews who were not fluent in Yiddish. This became ''The Jewish Press''. In March 2014, the newspaper fired editor Yori Yanover after he wrote an op-ed titled "50 Thousand Haredim March So Only Other Jews Die in War." The piece was in reference to a Haredi Jewish prayer rally in Manhattan protesting the draft of yeshiva students to the Israel Defence Forces. Shlomo Greenwald, grandson of Shlomo Klass, has been the newspaper's top editor since May 2021. Editorial The tabloid-style newspaper features distinctive b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
