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Haaretz - 09:23 Dec 03, 2025
According to Netanyahu's office, the move marks the first attempt to establish a foundation for economic relations and cooperation between Israel and Lebanon, which do not have diplomatic ties -
Haaretz - 21:25 Dec 02, 2025
Speaking at the Israel Hayom conference, the Biden administration's envoy to Lebanon said Israel 'can't keep living in a state of war.' U.S. Envoy to the UN Mike Waltz praised Trump's Gaza cease-fire plan, saying a Doha strike under 'any other administration' would end negotiations -
Haaretz - 13:07 Dec 02, 2025
Pope Leo XIV, on the last day of his visit to Lebanon, noted the areas he could not tour due to recent Israeli attacks, saying, 'Armed struggle brings no benefit,' mentioning Sidon and Tyre as 'biblical places' -
Haaretz - 13:36 Dec 01, 2025
After visiting Turkey, Pope Leo continues to Lebanon, warmly received in Beirut as 'a visit of hope.' During his three-day trip, he visited holy sites sacred to both Muslims and Christians, including the Tomb of St. Charbel Makhlouf and the Shrine of Our Lady of Lebanon, urging hope, love, and respect for religious pluralism -
Haaretz - 10:38 Nov 29, 2025
Following Israel's assassination of Hezbollah's military chief, new ambassador Michel Issa urged Lebanon to implement its 'historic' decision to disarm Hezbollah. He declined to comment on the likelihood of diplomatic talks between Israel and Lebanon -
Haaretz - 09:35 Nov 27, 2025
Washington, with the help of Israeli attacks, hopes to compel the Lebanese government and Army to disarm Hezbollah. Moreover, the U.S. postulates that Israeli aggression can force Lebanon to enter diplomatic negotiations with Israel, possibly even joining the Abraham Accords -
JPost.com - Christian World - 07:49 Nov 27, 2025
On his first trip abroad as pontiff, Pope Leo travels to Turkey and Lebanon, calling for Middle East peace and Christian unity as global attention follows closely.
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Haaretz - 13:25 Nov 26, 2025
Lebanon and Israel delineated their maritime borders in 2022 under a U.S.-brokered deal, and Syria is the final country with which Lebanon has yet to delineate its sea border. Lebanon hopes offshore gas and oil discoveries could help reverse a 2019 financial collapse -
Haaretz - 04:01 Nov 21, 2025
IDF officers have once again begun discussing the possibility of a brief period of focused clashes with Hezbollah, as the military now believes Hamas has between 20,000 and 25,000 armed operatives in Lebanon -
Haaretz - 12:57 Nov 17, 2025
The footage, which shows the civilian entering Lebanon in a military vehicle and wearing protective gear, was later promoted by Uri Tzafon, a movement that advocates Israeli settlement in Lebanon -
Haaretz - 16:49 Nov 02, 2025
Israel has been escalating its strikes on Lebanon in recent days while senior officials are escalating their rhetoric against it. The Israeli narrative was that Hezbollah had been weakened and deterred, one official said, but now it is shifting to justify strikes and pressure Beirut -
Haaretz - 13:54 Oct 21, 2025
Lebanon has been dragging its feet in demilitarizing Hezbollah in an attempt to avoid a civil war. But the U.S. policy shift in Gaza provides Beirut with a small window of opportunity to end a longstanding crisis and reach an agreement with Israel -
JPost.com - Christian World - 13:09 Oct 07, 2025
Leo had been expected for months to travel to Turkey for his first trip abroad, but the additional visit to Lebanon only emerged in discussions in recent weeks.
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JPost.com - Banking & Finance - 15:24 Sep 25, 2025
Decades of profligate spending by the country's ruling elite sent the economy into a tailspin in late 2019, with depositors locked out of their accounts as debt-laden banks shut down.
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JPost.com - Business & Innovation - 15:24 Sep 25, 2025
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Haaretz - 17:16 Aug 28, 2025
UNIFIL was created to oversee the withdrawal of Israeli troops from southern Lebanon after Israel's 1978 invasion. Trump administration political appointees came into office wanting to shut the force down as soon as possible, and have secured major cuts in U.S. funding for the force -
Haaretz - 15:25 Aug 26, 2025
U.S. Envoy Tom Barrack said Lebanon and its military are 'not talking about going to war,' but looking to 'convince' Hezbollah to disarm. Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem said the group would not discuss a national defense strategy until Israeli forces withdraw -
Haaretz - 11:38 Aug 21, 2025
Salah Abu-Hussein's family searched for him for a year before learning he had been imprisoned in Lebanon. Neighbors say he has mental health issues, and Israeli security is investigating how and why he was detained -
JPost.com - Christian World - 14:19 Aug 20, 2025
The pope will travel to Lebanon "by December," Cardinal Bechara Rai told the al-Arabiya television channel.
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Haaretz - 14:23 Aug 01, 2025
The IDF's presence in Lebanon has become a bargaining chip for Hezbollah in talks on disarming it, while Israel's seizure of land in the Golan and beyond has enmeshed it in Syrian politics. All this is endangering Trump's plans