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Eliyahu Hanavi Synagogue, Jobar, Damascus,
December 16, 2024, 1:14 pm
EXCLUSIVE: Syrian sefer Torah to be returned to synagogue
High-level delegation of Syrian Jewish leaders and chief rabbi to visit Damascus after fall of Assad
By Jenni Frazer
The Sassoon Synagogue in Mosul is one of four sites in Iraq that are earmarked for priority work
June 12, 2020, 2:44 pm
Iraq and Syria synagogues are earmarked for ‘urgent’ repair
Jewish heritage body says work on ancient shrines, cemeteries and prayer halls must be done while those in the local community who can authorise the work are still able to
By Stephen Oryszczuk
General Qassem Soleiman
January 13, 2020, 12:19 pm
Israeli intel helped US assassinate Iranian general Soleimani, report claims
News report claims Israel helped the U.S. confirm a tip from informants at the airport in the Syrian capital of Damascus on the whereabouts of the Iranian figure
By JTA
Hezbollah supporters in Beruit
September 9, 2019, 9:33 am
Hezbollah claims it shot down Israeli drone as IDF says it ‘fell’
Lebanon-based terror group says it took out the unmanned device and that they now have the wreckage, as the Israeli army refuses to elaborate on how it came to be out of action
By Jewish News Reporter
Photo provided by the government-controlled Syrian Central Military Media, shows missiles rise into the sky as Israeli missiles hit air defense position and other military bases, in Damascus, Syria, in May 2018. (Syrian Central Military Media, via AP)
July 1, 2019, 4:20 pm
Syrian missile aimed at Israeli jets reportedly lands in Cyprus, causing fires
Stray projectile exploded in the hills north of Nicosia amid an attack which Syrian state media attributed to the IDF
By Jewish News Reporter
A blast caused by an Israeli airstrike on Iranian targets in the Damascus International Airport on January 11, 2019. (Screen capture: Twitter, via Times of Israel)
January 14, 2019, 10:45 am
Benjamin Netanyahu confirms Israel hit Iranian target in Syria
Israeli PM says the IDF struck an Iranian arms warehouse at Syria’s international airport in Damascus over the weekend
By JTA
Damascus International airport
June 26, 2018, 5:01 pm
Syria claims Israeli missiles struck near Damascus airport
Two Israeli projectiles reportedly hit sites near Syria's capital according to reports from the state-run media
Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef
April 9, 2018, 11:42 am
Israeli chief rabbi: Jews have ‘moral obligation’ to end Syrian ‘genocide’
Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef says there must be intervention in the war amid reports that up to 150 people were killed in a chemical attack in Douma
By JTA
Eliyahu Hanavi Synagogue, Jobar, Damascus,
March 27, 2018, 11:47 am
Syria accuses Israel of stealing valuable artefacts from ancient Damascus synagogue
Official complaint handed to the United Nations Security Council alleging the Jewish state smuggled out books from the Eliyahu Hanavi shul
By JTA
Smoke rise from Syrian village as a result of fighting in the Golan Heights, 2017 Photo by: Ayal Margolin- JINIPIX
October 11, 2017, 10:15 am
Israel considered bombing crematoria in Syria
Military officials debated hitting state facilities at Saydnaya military prison, citing collective memory over the Holocaust
The view over Syria from the Golan Heights
March 20, 2017, 12:37 pm
Syrian truck driver reportedly killed by Israeli drone
Israel refuses to confirm or deny involvement in an incident which saw a man killed in the Syrian Golan Heights
By JTA
Avigdor ‘Yanush’ Ben-Gal
February 15, 2016, 4:05 pm
Yom Kippur War hero Avigdor ‘Yanush’ Ben-Gal dies at 79
December 20, 2015, 12:21 pm
Lebanese terrorist convicted for notorious attack in Israel is ‘killed’
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