Visit Kibbutz Misgav Am on Lebanese Hezbollah Border w/The United West
Join Tom Trento and The United West on a unique tour into the most northern reaches of Israel along the Lebanese and Israeli border.
In this video you will visit an Israeli Defense Forces Army base. Next we visit the Kibbutz Misgav Am literally a stones throw from the Lebanese border overlooking a Hezbollah controlled village.
Misgav Am (Hebrew: מִשְׂגַּב עָם, lit. Fortress of the People) is a kibbutz in the Upper Galilee in northern Israel. Located close to the border with Lebanon near the town of Kiryat Shmona, it falls under the jurisdiction of Upper Galilee Regional Council.
Misgav Am was founded in 1945. One of its founders was Dr. Reuven Moskovitz. He was born 1928 in Romania, survived the Holocaust and immigrated to Israel. He founded several organisations, including Neve Shalom, where he has lived since 1972.
On 7 April 1980, five terrorists from the Iraqi-backed Arab Liberation Front penetrated Misgav Am in the night and entered the nursery. They killed the kibbutz secretary and an infant boy. They held the rest of the children hostage, demanding the release of about 50 terrorists held in Israeli prisons. The first raid of an IDF infantry unit was unsuccessful, but a second attempt, a few hours later, succeeded, and all the terrorists were killed. Two kibbutz members and one soldier were killed, four children and 11 soldiers were wounded.[1]
Immediately after the attack, Israeli troops entered southern Lebanon to wipe out terrorist nests and to intensify the pressure on the Palestinian terrorists in Lebanon. Israel withdrew after five days, because of heavy political pressure by the United States.
In the years of Israeli presence in southern Lebanon (1982-2000), the kibbutz had cordial relations with the people on the other side of the border, despite the state of war between Lebanon and Israel since Israel's birth in 1948.
During the Second Lebanon war in 2006, several thousands of IDF troops were deployed around Misgav Am, which brought heavy logistical problems: food, water and sanitary facilities.
The kibbutz offers an education system beginning at the age of 3 and ending after high school. There is a daycare center for babies, another for infants and also a kindergarten. Elementary school is at Kibbutz Kfar Giladi, junior and senior high school is located at kibbutz Dafna.
With the new policy of a longer schooling day, children receive various enrichment classes in the region: dance and music Kfar Blum, ice-skating Canada centre of Metula, karate Ramot Naftali.
SSHSLI Senior Trip to Israel Part 3
Seniors visit Kibbutz Misgav Am ,ride the Manara Cable Car and have lunch in Kiryat Shemona. After Kayaking on the Jordan, they volunteer at an absorption center for Ethiopian Jews. The next day they visit an Arab school and tour Sfat.
Israeli soldiers patrol Lebanese border, deserted cities
Israel North Border, Israel - 16 July 2006
1. Wide of border with Israeli flag
2. Medium of stop sign near to border
3. Various of Israeli helicopters flying near border
4. Close of barbed wire ++AUDIO++ gunfire
5. Wide of surrounding deserted area near border
6. Israel military vehicles driving by border
7. Deserted areas
8. Deserted road
Kiryat Shmona, Israel - 16 July 2006
9. Pan from burnt forest ground to lorry driving along road
10. Road signs for Tiberias and Mepula; pan to empty road
11. Various of man walking dog on street
12. Deserted area
13. Ambulance and medics sitting outside the ambulance station drinking coffee
14. Various of paramedics
15. Ambulance driving along
16. Bird near to rubbish bin
15. Man throwing rubbish into bin
16. WS of deserted street
STORYLINE:
Towns and cities surrounding the Israeli North border were almost deserted on Sunday following missile attacks from Hezbollah militants the previous day.
Residents and tourists to Tiberias fled into bomb shelters on Saturday as the city was targeted.
On Sunday, Kiryat Shmona, Tiberias and Mepula remained calm with no further bombings or attacks from Hezbollah.
Israeli helicopters and military vehicles were seen patrolling near Israel northern border with Lebanon .
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Night vision of soldiers getting ready to cross the border
SHOTLIST
Northern Israel (Israel-Lebanon border)
1. Various of soldiers dealing with explosives
2. Long shot view of Lebanon, explosions heard
3. Cut away to Israeli soldiers and explosives
4. Various long shots view of Lebanon, explosions and plumes of smoke
Misgav Am area, northern Israel
++Night shots++
5. Various night vision shots of Israeli forces preparing to go into Lebanon
STORYLINE:
There was no sign of a cessation of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah on Wednesday, the 22nd day of the conflict.
Israeli ground forces continued to enter Lebanon and more were preparing for action in the Misgav Am area, near the Israeli town of Kiryat Shemona on Wednesday night.
Earlier in the day the Israeli Air Force resumed full activity after a partial 48 ceasefire in aerial attacks.
Also, in a record setting day, 230 rockets were fired by Hezbollah into Israel, leaving at least one Israeli dead and at least 58 injured.
Rocket fire killed a 52-year-old Israeli American in Kibbutz Saar, a communal farm near the coastal resort of Nahariya.
It brought the Israeli death toll in three weeks of fighting to 55, including 19 civilians.
At least 548 Lebanese have been killed since the fighting began three weeks ago, including 477 civilians and 25 Lebanese soldiers and at least 46 Hezbollah guerrillas.
Wednesday's massive barrage, which followed a two-day lull, came despite the Israeli army chief's claim that the three-week offensive in south Lebanon had eroded Hezbollah's firepower.
Israel's army chief, Lieutenant-General Dan Halutz also threatened to resume air raids against the Lebanese capital.
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SYND 3 5 78 WOUNDED UN SOLDIERS RECOVERING IN HOSPITAL IN HAIFA
(3 May 1978) Wounded United Natons French and Senegalese soldiers recovering in Israeli hospital in Haifa after being wounded in clashes between UN troops and Palestinian guerrillas in Tyre area of Lebanon.
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A'math of attacks in Amirim, Maalot, injured in hospital, shelling across border
SHOTLIST
Amirim, northern Israel
1. Exterior of damaged house, Zoom in to the damages
2. Mid of israeli flags on the damaged house
3. Mid of security coming out of the house, tilt up to the damaged roof
4. Wide of Israeli police near the house, Zoom in the police
5. Wide of people gathered at scene, Zoom in to two women
6. Pan of police car leaving
Haifa, Israel
7. Helicopter landing near Rambam hospital
8. Various of injured Israeli soldiers being carried out of the helicopter
9. Pan of ambulance driving away
Northern Israeli border
10. Various of Israeli tanks firing shells on the northern border
11. Wide of firing rockets
Haifa
12. Helicopter landing near Rambam hospital
13. Medics running towards helicopter with stretchers
14. Long shot of seriously injured soldier laid out on a stretcher on the ground
15. Various of medics rushing injured to waiting ambulances
16. Injured soldier being helped to ambulance
17. Ambulances driving away
Maalot, northern Israel
18. Fire crew spraying water on remains of Hezbollah rocket
19. Fire truck
20. Smoke rising from ground
21. Various of fire crew directing water at smoke from hosepipe on top of fire truck
22. Various of rubble from rocket attack smoking on the ground
23. Mid shot of damaged building
24. Various of smashed windows and doors
25. Fire crew walking off with remains of rocket
STORYLINE:
A UN Security Council resolution passed unanimously
on Friday did nothing to immediately halt fighting between Israel and Hezbollah on Saturday.
On Saturday afternoon - after a rocket-free morning -Hezbollah rockets injured at least five people in northern Israel, medics said.
A direct hit on a house in Amirim, a northern Israel community, injured two people who were hit by shrapnel.
Another strike in the northern town of Kiryat Shmona injured three people.
Rockets also fell on the northern city of Maalot, injuring no one but damaging buildings.
By mid-afternoon, the army reported 20 rocket strikes on Israel.
Hezbollah had been averaging nearly 200 hits each day during its conflict with Israel.
In northern Israel tanks were filmed shelling Hezbollah positions across the border.
In Haifa meanwhile, Israeli army helicopters were seen landing at the Rambam hospital, bringing injured soldiers from Lebanon.
On Saturday the army said one of its soldiers was killed in fighting a day earlier, bringing the toll of military casualties since fighting started on July 12 to 85.
Israeli Radio meanwhile reported that units of the Israeli army had reached the Litani River on Saturday, less than 24 hours after the government ordered an operation to march toward the river in a final push effort against entrenched Hezbollah militants.
The units were part of a massive force that flooded into Lebanon, trying to seize as much territory as possible
before a UN cease-fire comes into effect.
The objective was to control southern Lebanon up to the Litani River before handing over the area to the Lebanese army and UN troops.
Under the cease-fire deal, approved by the U.N. Security Council early Saturday, some 15,000 U.N. peacekeepers would deploy along the Israel-Lebanon border, along with an equal number of Lebanese troops.
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The longest cable car in Israel ( Cliff Manara )
שלג בקיבוץ הגושרים 22/2/15(2)
שלג ירד בקיבוץ הגושרים ב 22/2/15 בבוקר יום שישי הסטוריה!
SYND 21-5-74 SYMBOLIC FUNERAL OF ARAB TERRORISTS KILLED IN SCHOOL RAID IN MA'SLOT
(20 May 1974) Symbolic funeral procession in Damascus for the three Arab terrorists killed during the raid of the school at Ma'alot.
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