Israel News for 11-18-2024
News Update
Hezbollah rockets damages homes and a yeshiva in Kiryat Shemona today. No injuries were reported. Hezbollah also fired a barrage at Nahariya and the surrounding area. No damage was reported. On Saturday, a Hezbollah rocket hit and destroyed a synagogue in Haifa. Another synagogue and kindergarten nearby also suffered extensive damage. One elderly worshiper said, “We had a great miracle. Two hours before that we were still praying here in the synagogue. Look what happened to us here. The missile hit exactly where we pray. It will take a long time to rebuild our synagogue.”
The IDF continued attacks against Hezbollah targets in Beirut’s Dahieh district on Sunday. According to the Lebanese Health Ministry, 11 people were killed and 48 wounded during IDF airstrikes in the area of Tyre in southern Lebanon last night. Meanwhile, ceasefire talks continue.
Captain Yogev Pazy, 22, from Giv’ot Bar, and Staff Sergeant Noam Eitan, 21, from Hadera and Sgt. First Class (res.) Idan Kenan, 21, from Ramat Gan, all members of the Kfir Brigade, were killed fighting in Jabaliya.
Sergeant Ori Nisanovich, 21, from Jerusalem, a soldier in the Golani Brigade’s 13th Battalion, was killed in combat in southern Lebanon.
Security officials estimate that of the 101 hostages held in Gaza for more than 400 days, only 51 remain alive. It is unclear whether Hamas is willing to negotiate any agreement that doesn’t include an end to the war and full withdrawal of Israel from Gaza.
U.S. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, a close Trump ally, is in Israel for talk and will then head to Saudi Arabia, in an effort to restart normalization talks between the two countries. Graham reportedly told PM Netanyahu, “Do whatever you must to prevent the Iranian ayatollahs from obtaining nuclear weapons.”
According to Azerbaijan media reports confirmed by government officials, the real reason President Isaac Herzog canceled his visit to the climate conference in Baku is Turkey’s refusal to allow Herzog’s plane to fly through its airspace on the way to the meeting. For more, click here.
The unemployment rate in Israel in October fell to 2.5%, the Central Bureau of Statistics reports, down from 2.7% in October.
