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Melanie Lidman

Melanie Lidman

The Times of Israel

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Elizabeth Tsurkov recovering from captivity and torture at hands of Iraqi terrorists

Kataeb Hezbollah originally kidnapped the researcher hoping to get ransom for her as a foreigner, she says, but started torturing her when they...

11.11.2025 30

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Melanie Lidman

Sharaa arrives in US for first-ever official visit of Syrian president

Former rebel leader will meet with Trump on Monday, after arrival shares video of himself playing basketball with top US military officials

09.11.2025 60

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Melanie Lidman

Israeli Kristallnacht survivors mark 87th anniversary amid rising global antisemitism

Survivors see parallels between today and period ahead of Holocaust: ‘We live in an era equivalent to 1938, where synagogues are burned, and...

09.11.2025 80

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Eli Sharabi’s memoir, the first by a freed Hamas hostage, is coming out in English

‘Hostage,’ already out in Hebrew, instantly became a bestseller in Israel; Sharabi isn’t yet ready to go inside the Kibbutz...

06.10.2025 50

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Melanie Lidman

Thousands of archaeological relics rescued in Gaza ahead of IDF strike

Army says Hamas was using warehouse that contained artifacts from over 25 years of excavations, including some of the oldest known evidence of...

17.09.2025 70

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Twenty years on from Gaza withdrawal, Israel is again mired in the Strip

For Israelis evacuated in the 2005 disengagement, the war is viewed as an opportunity to undo past mistakes and return; Palestinians fear a long-term...

15.08.2025 9

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Melanie Lidman

100,000-year-old burial site in Israel reveals complex rituals of early humans

Archaeologists find skeletons at Tinshemet Cave in north, along with pebbles, animal remains and a reddish pigment made from rocks, which experts...

24.07.2025 10

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Melanie Lidman

A Ukrainian fled to Israel, then an Iranian missile shattered her new life

‘I didn’t understand that it was possible here,’ says Tetiana Kurakova, who departed Ukraine upon Russian invasion only to have her...

20.06.2025 70

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Melanie Lidman

GOP lawmakers berate Haverford College chief for silence on antisemitism discipline

At congressional hearing, school president Wendy Raymond declines to detail punishments for students and faculty accused of anti-Jewish bias; some...

08.05.2025 30

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Melanie Lidman

Mother of hostage Elkana Bohbot fumes over mixed signals on how many captives dead

Ruhama Bohbot says ‘impossible’ to know if her son is still alive ‘amidst all of the things that are not OK’ about his still being held...

08.05.2025 20

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After initial ecstasy of freedom, released hostages face long road to recovery

‘I don’t think my brain has really grasped everything,’ says Ilana Gritzewsky, who came back in November 2023

31.01.2025 10

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Kibbutz Manara, destroyed by Hezbollah’s rockets, starts to pick up the pieces

Members of the community begin appraisal process to see what can be salvaged after vast majority of homes were destroyed or damaged in Hezbollah...

28.01.2025 40

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Melanie Lidman

‘For 60 years, I didn’t talk’: How one survivor made Holocaust memory his mission

Naftali Fürst was 12 years old when he was sent to Auschwitz; now, on the 80th anniversary of its liberation, he will return to the Nazi death camp...

24.01.2025 20

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Melanie Lidman