X-Nico

9 unusual facts about 1982 Lebanon War


Erev Hadash

The show was first aired on June 7, 1982, the second day of the 1982 Lebanon War, as a show of soldiers sending regards to their family from the front, and news flash, and it was originally named Operation Peace for Galilee (Hebrew: מבצע שלום הגליל, read as Mivtsa Shlom HaGalil), the identical name of the operation of the war.

Hanoch Levin

For example, "A Hardened Ballad of a Soldier Man and Woman" from June 1966 was revised as "Black Eagle on a Red Roof" and published after the 1982 Lebanon War.

Ibrahim Ghannam

During the invasion of Lebanon in 1982, the Israeli army seized some of his paintings from one of the exhibits of Beirut.

Israeli invasion of Lebanon

1982 Lebanon War, Israel Defense Forces invasion of southern Lebanon

Stanisław Aronson

He was also a member of the elite Kedyw unit, "Kolegium A", of the Warsaw Region of AK, a participant in the Warsaw Uprising of 1944, and a Lieutenant Colonel of the Israeli Defense Force who took part in the Israeli War of Independence, the Yom Kippur War and the 1982 Lebanon War.

Videos and audio recordings of Osama bin Laden

Bin Laden claimed he was inspired to destroy the World Trade Center after watching the destruction of towers in Lebanon by Israel during the 1982 Lebanon War.

Wadi Abu Jamil

During the 1982 Lebanon War, Yasir Arafat's PLO forces took over much of the neighborhood, which was located along the dividing line between the two sides of the Lebanese Civil War.

Wings Over Israel

The player can select a historical campaign from either Six-day War (1967), October War (1973), or Lebanon War (1982); each being from a different time era with different aircraft and weapons forcing the player to employ different tactics in each.

Wings Over Israel (AKA Combat Over Israel in some European market) is a PC game (Combat / Flight Simulator) covering the three major Middle Eastern conflicts Six-day War (1967), Yom Kippur War (1973) and Lebanon War (1982).


Elias Sarkis

Just before the end of his term in 1982, Israel invaded southern Lebanon in the 1982 Lebanon War and had advanced to the outskirts of Beirut.

Tadiran Mastiff

Three generations of the Mastiff developed by Tadiran were in operational use by the IDF performing numerous operational missions, the most well known of them was flown during the first Lebanon war when Yasser Arafat was caught by the Mastiff video camera.


see also

Battle of Beirut

Siege of Beirut (1982), a siege by Israel during the 1982 Lebanon War