Second Lebanon War

Twenty years after the Second Lebanon War, Resolution 1701 is identified primarily with the failure to disarm Hezbollah. However, alongside the failure, it also created 17 years of quiet – and the lesson from it is more relevant than ever.

Yoseph Haddad volunteered for the army, was severely wounded in the Golani Brigade, an injury that changed his life, and until the advocacy activity he funded from his own private pocket, these are the surprising stations in the life of the prominent activist Yoseph Haddad.

The advocacy activist and former Golani fighter marked exactly 20 years since the day he was wounded in battle during the Second Lebanon War. "The doctor said: 'Get me a helicopter for evacuation here now, or bring an armored ambulance at noon to evacuate a corpse,'" he recalled. Haddad sent a message to the wounded fighters: "There is light at the end of the tunnel."

12 reservists lost their lives in a Katyusha rocket strike in the assembly area near the "Roaring Lion" monument in Tel Hai. On the 20th anniversary of the disaster, soldiers and commanders of the 9255th Battalion gathered for a memorial ceremony for their comrades, including Doron Alon, then a young reservist and today a company sergeant major in the battalion, who returned to the site for the...

Brigadier General Efi Defrin revealed that he has been dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder following his military service, and the consequences it had: "You are driving in the summer and suddenly there is a flash of sun that freezes you for a second. You feel that you are in a tank now, they are shooting at you, and you are in the middle of Tel Aviv on a beach."

During a quiz in an interview at the Israel Security Conference, Minister of Defense Israel Katz was asked to name the defense ministers during Israel's wars. When reaching the Second Lebanon War and Operation Protective Edge, Katz claimed these were not wars. In the Second Lebanon War alone, 165 Israelis were killed and thousands wounded.