OHAD ZWIGENBERG

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem rides a camel after a tour of Qal'at al-Bahrain Fort, Sunday, May 25, 2025, near Manama, Bahrain. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Pool)
AP PHOTOS: US Homeland Security Secretary Noem visits Middle East
 
Israeli security forces inspect the site where the Israeli military said a projectile fired by Yemen's Houthi rebels landed in the area of Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv, Israel, on Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
A missile from Yemen halts flights in Israel hours before vote on intensifying Gaza war
A missile launched by Iranian-backed rebels in Yemen briefly halted flights and commuter traffic at Israel’s main international airport. It’s the first time a missile has struck Ben-Gurion International Airport since the war in Gaza began.
 
An Israeli police officer inspects the scene of one of a series of bus explosions in what authorities said appeared to be a militant attack in Bat Yam, central Israel, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
No injuries from Israeli bus explosions in suspected militant attack, police say
Israeli police have reported a series of explosions on three buses in central Israel in what they said appeared to be a militant attack. No injuries were reported.
 
The home of Aryeh Zalmanovich, 85, a hostage whose body is held by Hamas militants in Gaza, stands empty after nearly 15 months of war in Kibbutz Nir Oz, southern Israel, Thursday Dec. 5, 2024 (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
AP PHOTOS: After 15 months of abandonment, hostage homes are empty memorials
KIBBUTZ NIR OZ, Israel (AP) — After 15 months of war, the homes of Israeli hostages are like time capsules of a war zone.
 
A police officer inspects the area around a fire after the military said it fired interceptors at a missile launched from Yemen that landed in central Israel on Sunday, Sept. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
A missile fired by Yemen’s rebels lands in Israel and triggers sirens at international airport
A missile fired by Yemen’s Iran-backed rebels has landed in an open area in central Israel and triggered air raid sirens at its international airport. It’s the latest reverberation from the nearly yearlong war in Gaza.
 
Israeli army vehicles transport a group of soldiers and journalists inside the southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, July 3, 2024. The Israeli military invited reporters for a tour of Rafah, where the military has been operating since May 6. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg, Pool)
Rafah is a dusty, rubble-strewn ghost town 2 months after Israel invaded to root out Hamas
Two months ago, before Israeli troops invaded Rafah, the city sheltered most of Gaza’s more than 2 million people. Today it is a dust-covered ghost town. Abandoned, bullet-ridden apartment buildings have blasted out walls and shattered windows.
 
Police use water cannon to disperse ultra-Orthodox Jewish men blocking a street during a protest against army recruitment in Jerusalem on Sunday, June 30, 2024. Israel's Supreme Court last week ordered the government to begin drafting ultra-Orthodox men into the army, a landmark ruling seeking to end a system that has allowed them to avoid enlistment into compulsory military service. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
Ultra-Orthodox protest against order to enlist in Israeli military turns violent in Jerusalem
Thousands of Jewish ultra-Orthodox men have clashed with Israeli police in central Jerusalem during a protest against a Supreme Court order for them to begin enlisting for military service.
 
Israeli soldiers show journalists an underground tunnel where the Israeli military said it had found evidence hostages were held by militants in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, on Wednesday, Jan. 10. 2024. The tunnel was located near destroyed homes and streets in a city that's become the focus of Israel's ground offensive. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
Israeli military says it found traces of hostages in a tunnel in the Gaza Strip
The Israeli military says it has found evidence that hostages were present in a tunnel in the Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis, which has become the focus of Israel’s ground offensive.
 
Israeli army troops are seen next to a destroyed building during a ground operation in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023., Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023. Israeli ground forces entered the Gaza Strip as they press ahead with their war against Hamas militants in retaliation for the group's unprecedented Oct. 7 attack on Israel. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
Israeli military tour of northern Gaza reveals ravaged buildings, toppled trees, former weapons lab
International journalists escorted by the Israeli military got a glimpse of the devastation wrought by nearly two weeks of heavy fighting in the northern Gaza Strip.
 
Keren Scharf Schem holds up a portrait of her daughter, 21-year-old Mia Schem, in the family house in Mazor, central Israel, Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023. Schem, an Israeli and French citizen, was abducted by Hamas militants from the Nova Music Festival near Kibbutz Re'im, Israel, and was taken into Gaza during the group's unprecedented attack on Israel on Oct. 7 that resulted in the killing of 1,400 people and abduction of over 220. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
AP PHOTOS: Israeli families of hostages taken to Gaza caught between grief and hope as war rages on
As the weeks wear on and new horrors from the Israel-Hamas war dominate TV screens, families whose loved ones were killed or abducted by militants in the terrifying Oct. 7 raids on southern Israel say it is their mission to ensure the hostages are not forgotten.
 
Israelis protest against plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to overhaul the judicial system and in support of the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, Monday, Sept. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
Protests against Israel’s judicial overhaul kick off at Supreme Court a day before crucial hearing
Thousands of Israeli protesters have flooded the streets outside Israel’s Supreme Court, a day before it hears a pivotal case against the curbing of the high court’s powers by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right government.
 
Anti-Eritrean government activists, left, clash with supporters of the Eritrean government, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, Sept. 2, 2023. Hundreds of Eritrean asylum seekers smashed shop windows and police cars in Tel Aviv on Saturday and clashed with police during a protest against an event organized by the Eritrea Embassy. The Israeli police said 27 officers were injured in the clashes, and at least three protesters were shot when police opened fire with live rounds when they felt "real danger to their lives." (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
Rival Eritrean groups clash in Israel, leaving dozens hurt in worst confrontation in recent memory
Hundreds of Eritrean government supporters and opponents have clashed with each other and with Israeli police in Tel Aviv. Saturday’s confrontations lasted several hours and were the most violent in the area in recent memory.
 
Israeli police inspect the site of a shooting attack in the West Bank Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim, Tuesday, Aug 1, 2023. A Palestinian gunman opened fire in an Israeli settlement east of Jerusalem on Tuesday, wounding at least four people, Israeli medics said. The Palestinian assailant was shot and killed by an off-duty Israeli police officer outside a shopping mall. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
Palestinian opens fire in West Bank settlement, wounding 6 people before being killed
Israeli authorities say a Palestinian gunman has opened fire in an Israeli settlement east of Jerusalem, wounding at least six people before being shot and killed.