Syria
Jill Joshowitz stands before the Dura-Europas panels (Photo by David Horovitz)
September 29, 2025, 8:41 am
Pittsburgh scholar studies world’s oldest synagogue paintings firsthand in Syria
Jill Joshowitz has been studying the paintings for years. Earlier this month, she saw them in person for the first time.
By Deborah Weisberg
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks about Israeli actions in Syria, July 17, 2025. (Credit: PMO)
July 20, 2025, 12:37 pm
‘A child who just won’t behave’: US said fuming at ‘madman’ Netanyahu after Syria strikes
White House officials reportedly view actions as harming Trump’s peace efforts, say PM making ‘big mistake’; Jerusalem tried explaining need to defend Druze, Israeli official says
By Lazar Berman
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks about Israeli actions in Syria, July 17, 2025. (Credit: PMO)
July 17, 2025, 3:34 pm
Netanyahu’s strategy in Syria: Demilitarization and Druze protection
"We will not allow military forces to move south of Damascus, and we will not allow harm to come to the Druze in Jabal al-Druze," the prime minister said.
By JNS Staff
Eli Cohen (in the middle) posing as Arab merchant Kamel Amin Thaabet, with his friends from the Syrian army on the Golan Heights overlooking Israel, mid-1960s. (Credit: Syrian military personnel photo via Wikimedia Commons)
May 19, 2025, 9:20 am
Mossad retrieves official Syrian Eli Cohen archive
The recovered archive includes approximately 2,500 documents, photographs and personal effects — most of which are being revealed to the public for the first time.
By JNS Staff
US President Donald Trump speaks to journalists in the Oval Office on January 20, 2025. Elad Nehorai believes something has shifted in Trump's perspective on Israel. (Jim WATSON / POOL / AFP)
May 14, 2025, 9:04 pm
Trump pushes Syria to establish ties with Israel, praises its leader
He also called “for a future of safety and dignity of the Palestinian people, but that cannot happen as long as Gaza’s leaders take delight in raping, torturing and murdering innocent people,”
By Ben Sales
December 18, 2024, 10:51 am
Chronicle poll results: Syria
We asked our readers if they think the fall of the Assad regime in Syria will be good for Israel or bad for Israel. Here's what they said.
By Adam Reinherz
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and other Israeli officials at the Syrian border on Dec. 8, 2024. (Koby Gideon/Israeli Government Press Office)
December 17, 2024, 6:38 pm
Netanyahu visits IDF soldiers in Syria as rebel leaders call for Israelis to exit
Plus, the mother of an American missing in Syria exhorted Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu to stop bombing.
By Ron Kampeas
The Central Synagogue of Aleppo in January 2016. (Courtesy of Moti Kahana)
December 14, 2024, 4:22 pm
What happened to relics of Syria’s Jewish history? Assad’s collapse spurs efforts to assess the damage
Bombardment, looting and disuse have wreaked an uncertain toll on the country’s former synagogues and Jewish sites
By Shira Li Bartov
December 11, 2024, 5:20 pm
Chronicle poll question
Do you think that on balance the fall of the Assad regime in Syria will be good for Israel or bad for Israel?
December 11, 2024, 9:52 am
What accounts for the speed of the Syrian revolution?
The hatred of the approximately 74% of the Sunni Syrian population of the Assad regime continues unabated.
By Sarah N. Stern
Troops of the elite Shaldag unit are seen on the Syrian side of Mount Hermon, December 8, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)
December 10, 2024, 9:31 pm
In historic campaign across Syria, IDF says it destroyed 80% of Assad regime’s military
After rebel takeover, Israeli Air Force and Navy strike missile depots, naval vessels, fighter jets and more to ensure they don’t fall into wrong hands
By Emanuel Fabian and TOI staff
December 9, 2024, 9:28 pm
Israeli troops cross into Syrian side of border buffer zone after Bashar Assad’s ouster
The incursion is not an attempt to influence the outcome of the uprising, the Israeli military said.
By Ron Kampeas
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and other Israeli officials at the Syrian border on Dec. 8, 2024. (Koby Gideon/Israeli Government Press Office)
December 8, 2024, 8:02 pm
What the fall of Bashar Assad in Syria means for Israel
Israeli leaders are broadcasting optimism about the fall of Assad, while girding themselves for the ascension of the jihadist-linked group that toppled him.
By Ben Sales
A man injured by an explosion in Beirut on September 17, 2024. (Screen capture: X via The Times of Israel)
September 17, 2024, 12:22 pm
Lebanon: Over 2,700 Hezbollah terrorists hurt, several killed by exploding pagers
Incident came just hours after the Israeli Cabinet added the return of citizens displaced from their homes in the north to the country’s war goals.
By Akiva Van Koningsveld
savi, the Iranian major general killed in alleged Israeli airstrike in Syria on Dec. 25, 2023. (Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)
December 26, 2023, 10:13 am
Iran vows revenge after senior IRGC officer slain in alleged Israeli strike in Syria
Brig. Gen. Razi Mousavi said responsible for coordinating military alliance between Iran and Syria, arming Iranian-backed militias including Hezbollah
By Emanuel Fabian
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