First Lebanon War

Netanyahu visits family of Yehuda Katz, after soldier missing for 44 years receives burial

Last week, the IDF recovered the remains of Katz in an operation in Lebanon, 44 years after he went missing during the First Lebanon War.

 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits the family of IDF soldier Yekutiel Yehuda Katz during the Shiva mourning period in Jerusalem, August 26, 2026.
Yehuda Katz.

After 44 years: IDF finds, returns remains of Yehuda Katz, who went missing in First Lebanon War

A sign at Interpol headquarters, where the International Criminal Police Organization, an intergovernmental body with 196 member countries, helps police worldwide work together through cooperation, intelligence-sharing and global alerts to combat cross-border crime, in Lyon, France, June 9, 2026.

Former Palestinian envoy Ashraf Dabbour detained in Lebanon over corruption claims

Two IDF company commanders at Beaufort Castle, southern Lebanon, July 12, 2026.

Hezbollah’s rock-cut tunnels under Beaufort Castle expose decades of UNIFIL failure - analysis


Palestinian org.: Israeli poem read by Pelosi 'romanticizes Israeli settlement'

American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) called the Israeli poet a romanticizer of an "illegal Israeli settlement" on an "ethnically cleansed Palestinian village." The song is a war anthem from the 80s.

 US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) reacts to the overturning of Roe v Wade during her weekly news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, US, June 24, 2022.

Israel to provide housing grants to South Lebanon Army veterans

Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman: “We will always remember the fighting of the SLA fighters side by side with the IDF fighters.”

 Activists protest for better financial support to former South Lebanon Army (SLA) warriors, outside the Defense Ministry offices in Tel Aviv on March 9, 2021

First Lebanon War, 1982: A turning point for Israel

At this moment of birth, fraught as are all such moments, many of the core elements that form the current Israeli landscape, politically, militarily and societally, came into being.

 IDF TANKS park near houses in Tyre, South Lebanon, July 1982.

Tales from the front of the First Lebanon War

A combat veteran from the First Lebanon War, recalls his treacherous military service in Beirut

 THE WRITER (L) with fellow Nahal soldier Daniel Zahavi-Assa in Beirut, 1982.

First Lebanon War still resonates in Israel 40 years later

While the war was not a military failure, it was a trauma: “This was the first time that a big part of the nation did not see the war as justified.”

 ISRAEL AIR Force helicopter ferries supplies to an IDF encampment during Israel’s Peace for Galilee military campaign, June 1982, south of Lebanon’s Beirut-Damascus highway.

Following in the wings of his grandfather: A young pilot's journey

“My grandfather was a pilot, but we didn’t really ever talk about it,” B told The Jerusalem Post ahead of the ceremony at Haterzim Air Base on Thursday night. “My grandfather flew a long time ago."

  First Lieutenant B

Israel's Lebanon trauma still lingers 40 years on

Israel never really recovered from that misadventure. Neither did I.

 On patrol in the Awali Valley

First Lebanon War: Has Israel's trauma been healed?

MIDDLE ISRAEL: 40 years after Israel's most failed war, its leaders seem to have learned its lessons - except one lesson, and one leader.

 DEFENSE MINISTER Ariel Sharon walks with prime minister Menachem Begin and his spokesman on June 7, 1982, in Lebanon.

My Word: When war gets personal

The First Lebanon War was “My War.” It is never a good thing when you have to number wars.

 A chain lock is seen on a gate, with a Star of David on it, at the Rosh Hanikra border crossing with Lebanon, in northern Israel.

Almost 20% of Lebanon War vets suffer from PTSD symptoms - survey

89% of First Lebanon War veterans have never sought help for their mental health issues.

 Israeli soldiers in Jezzine, Lebanon, during the first Lebanon War. 1984.