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Evacuees

The evacuees are the tens of thousands of Israelis who were forced to flee their homes in the North and South due to the start of the Hamas-Israel War and rockets fired from Hezbollah in Lebanon. 

These families have been forced into new housing, such as hotels throughout the country. 

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 An illustrative image of evacuees and US dollars

Israel arrests five for stealing millions from public war funds for evacuees

The site of the former President Hotel on Ahad Ha’am Street. In a comic twist, the derelict sign now reads ‘Resident Ho.’

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 Kids return to school for the first time since the beginning of the war, in the northern Israeli city of Kiryat Shmona, March 9, 2025.

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 Smoke billows over northern Israel after rockets were fired from Lebanon, amid ongoing cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, by Israel's border with Lebanon, May 17, 2024.

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By REUTERS
An Israeli flag flutters in front of the remains of a building, following a deadly infiltration by Hamas gunmen from the Gaza Strip, in Kibbutz Beeri in southern Israel October 22, 2023

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 Kiryat Shmona evacuees

Nearly half of North's evacuees undecided about returning home

 Homes in Kiryat Shmona are seen damaged by Hezbollah rockets.

Despite the ceasefire with Hezbollah, residents of Israel's North hesitate to go home

By LINDA GRADSTEIN
 A view of houses in Kibbutz Kfar Aza four months after the October 7 massacre.

Over 68,000 displaced Israelis to receive housing extension through Feb. 2025

 IDF soldiers operate to remove military equipment, ordnance from northern communities. December 22, 2024

Clearing the way for evacuees to return, IDF clears ordnance in North

 KIRYAT SHMONA: Sukkah left from last year, seen Oct. 15.

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 University of Haifa

U of Haifa Law Clinic provides legal support to Israelis in the North since Oct 7

 David Friedman

Grapevine: 'Hakafot shniyot'

 Volunteers help entertain children evacuated from Israel's north, at a hotel in the Red Sea coastal city of Eilat.

One year in limbo: Displaced Israeli families continue life in hotels with no end in sight

By VERONICA NEIFAKH/THE MEDIA LINE
 GAVRIELLA ASI-ZAHAV and Ro’i Hershkovici on their travels after fleeing their home on October 7.

Many Israelis were evacuated from their homes on Oct. 7. Now, they're making the best of it

By LINDA GRADSTEIN
Israeli security forces at the scene where a missile fired from Lebanon hit an open area near the northern Israeli city of Kiryat Shmona, September 4, 2024

Israel's High Court orders state to clarify northern evacuation decisions, aid plan exclusion

A woman and a girl hold pet carriers and other belongings as they prepare to depart from Kiryat Shmona in northern Israel near the border with Lebanon, Oct. 19, 2023.

Israel’s 68,000 evacuees celebrate Jewish new year apart — and wonder when they will return home

By Deborah Danan/JTA
 Shai Davidai, Ifat Ovadia-Luski, and Yaakov Hagoel.

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 Travelers are seen at the departure hall of the Ben Gurion International Airport on April 4, 2023

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