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Yair Kraus

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  1. Article · Sep 25, 2026 · Yair Kraus

    ‘A fighter at heart’: Two soldiers, two homes facing each other, one community in mourning (opens the original)

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    Master Sgt. (res.) Nadav Kali, 24, had barely finished his mandatory military service before returning to uniform as a reservist. On Thursday, he was killed alongside fellow reservist Master Sgt. (res.) Ofek Moalem in an accidental drone explosion at an IDF post in northern Gaza.Kali, from the small community of Har Halutz in northern Israel, completed his regular military service in 2024 and went almost immediately into reserve duty amid the war.He and Moalem, 23, were serving with the 7007th B

  2. Article · Sep 4, 2026 · Yair Kraus

    ‘I can’t leave for Damascus. They know I speak Hebrew, they’ll slaughter me’ (opens the original)

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    About four kilometers from the Israeli border fence, in the heart of the Syrian village of Khader, Dr. Daabous Najm takes a short break from a busy day at the local clinic that the IDF helped establish. He treats about 19 patients a day free of charge, earning only about $100 a month.Najm was born in Ein Qiniyye, a Druze village in the Israeli Golan Heights. He crossed into Syria in 2004 to pursue doctoral studies, married and remained there. “On the day the Assad regime fell in December 2024, w

  3. Article · Aug 31, 2026 · Yair Kraus

    Back to school, but not back to normal: Kiryat Shmona faces a battle for its students (opens the original)

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    Tuesday morning, school doors will open across the country, but in Kiryat Shmona and the communities of the Galilee Panhandle, the new school year is beginning with an entirely different feeling. After three years of war, months of prolonged evacuation, closed educational institutions and communities torn apart, the past summer in the north was, for the first time, relatively quiet and stable.The streets of the city were filled with a sense of joy, festivals were held and there was a genuine des

  4. Article · Aug 31, 2026 · Yair Kraus

    'They filmed here to say the city was dead': new families breathe life into war-battered Kiryat Shmona (opens the original)

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    After more than a decade of standing deserted, Hermon Square in Kiryat Shmona came back to life Thursday as a group of families who moved to the city in recent months inaugurated a cafe and cultural center aimed at restoring vibrant commercial activity to the area.When the host of the opening event asked the city’s new residents to raise their hands, hundreds went up. Jacqueline Elharar, 83, a mother of 18 who immigrated to Kiryat Shmona from Morocco in the late 1950s, was invited onstage as a r

  5. Article · Aug 30, 2026 · Yair Kraus

    IDF soldier recites Kaddish where his father was killed in Lebanon (opens the original)

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    Nearly two years after his father was killed in battle in southern Lebanon, IDF soldier Yehuda Moyal returned to the exact site of his death and recited Kaddish, the Jewish mourner’s prayer, in a moment captured on video that quickly spread across social media.“My life changed on the Sabbath of Parashat Bereshit at 2 p.m.,” Cpl. Yehuda Moyal, 21, said of the day he learned that his father, Warrant Officer Shaul Moyal, had been killed.Shaul Moyal, 47, was a father of 10 and a combat operative in

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