Tag: Beirut

William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Lebanon, spent his last morning on March 16, 1984 in Beirut following his routine before being abducted that day.
The article describes a journey through northern Israel, highlighting towns like Metulah and Kiryat Shemonah located near the Lebanese border, which have been affected by conflicts with Hezbollah.
Jacob Rosen-Koenigsbuch, a retired Ashkenazi diplomat, has compiled a list of Jewish family names from various cities in the Arab world before the Mizrahi exodus in the mid-20th century.
In a recent investigative piece in Yedioth Ahronoth, the failure of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) on October 7th is examined.
In a televised speech, Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah blamed Israel for the assassination of a senior Hamas leader in Beirut and vowed retaliation.
On Tuesday, an Israeli drone assassinated Hamas deputy chairman Saleh al-Arouri in Beirut, Lebanon.
A top Hamas leader, Saleh Al-Arouri, was killed in Beirut along with two other Hamas leaders in an attack.
Isaac Arazi, the former president of Lebanons small Jewish community, has died at the age of 80.
In this interview, Hanin Ghaddar, an expert on Shia politics in the Middle East, discusses the danger of a two-front war with Hezbollah on Israel's northern border.
The article discusses Lebanon's economic and financial crisis, which was the result of a Ponzi scheme that collapsed in 2019.
Lokman Slim, a political activist and critic of Hezbollah, was found dead near a Lebanon village where he had been shot.