This Is Beirut 2023-12-28 20:49 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The crisis sparked in educational circles by the adoption of two laws amending certain regulations, particularly related to school budgets and their contribution to the Compensation Fund, seems to be on the path to resolution. A subcommittee has been formed for this purpose, as Catholic schools remain on strike. Caretaker Minister of Education ...
This Is Beirut 2023-12-28 17:50 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Shortly before nightfall, the Civil Defense announced at 4:30 PM the end of the rescue operation for the 27 people stranded in the cabins of the Jounieh cable car. Army helicopters and special forces units participated in these operations, which lasted several hours. Teams from the Lebanese Red Cross were also dispatched to the scene. The ...
This Is Beirut 2023-12-28 16:58 - Reading : less than a minute
The head of Hezbollah's Executive Council, Hashem Safieddine, stressed on Thursday that "no power in the world will be able to impose on the resistance and its logic anything outside the interests of Lebanon and Palestine." Safieddine was speaking at the funeral, in Baalbek, of Muhammad Hassan Yaghi, the executive assistant of Hezbollah’s ...
This Is Beirut 2023-12-28 15:27 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
A technical malfunction in the Jounieh cable car caused two cabins to collide and other cabins on their way from Jounieh to Harissa to stop running. Deputy General Director of Civil Defense Rima el-Murr said in an interview on local TV station MTV that "there are 20 people trapped; we've rescued four of them, and rescue operations are ongoing. ...
This Is Beirut 2023-12-28 11:41 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The Maronite Patriarchal Vicar of Haifa and Jerusalem, Archbishop Moussa El-Hage denounced "fabricated information involving him.” He denied having taken part in the annual holiday greetings ceremony organized by Israeli President Isaac Herzog on December 21. In an interview with the daily Nidaa al-Watan on Thursday, Hage also pointed out that ...
This Is Beirut 2023-12-27 18:41 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
According to sources close to Hezbollah, the pro-Iranian group closely followed the arrangements of the dinner that sealed the rapprochement between Marada leader Sleiman Frangieh, Hezbollah’s presidential candidate, and the Army Commander-in-Chief, General Joseph Aoun, at the latter's residence in Yarzeh. The sources said Frangieh decided to ...
This Is Beirut 2023-12-27 18:33 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Bechara al-Rai Catholic Schools
Maronite Patriarch Bechara al-Rai said he was "satisfied" with the results of the meeting he chaired in Bkerke on Wednesday to discuss the laws on teachers' rights passed by Parliament on December 15. The two laws amend certain regulations governing educational authority in private schools and the management of school budgets. The controversial ...
2023-12-27 17:05 - Reading : less than a minute
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This Is Beirut 2023-12-27 16:30 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The former president of Lebanon's Jewish community has died on Tuesday. Jews have been living in Lebanon for 2,000 years, but their numbers shrank from some 22,000 before the 1975-1990 civil war to around 30 today, according to Hout. Contacted by This is Beirut, the late Mr. Arazi's sister stressed that "he took the initiative to rebuild the ...
This Is Beirut 2023-12-27 15:28 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The President of the Maronite League and former ambassador Khalil Karam presented a memorandum on "Lebanese apprehensions" to UN Secretary-General António Guterres. Karam called on the UN, through its agencies, to find a solution to the problem of displaced Syrians, and to work for the full implementation of UN Security Council resolutions, with ...
This Is Beirut 2023-12-27 14:09 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
On the tenth anniversary of Mohammad Chatah's assassination in a car bomb attack in downtown Beirut, several prominent figures paid tribute in memory of a leading figure of the anti-Hezbollah sovereign circle and the ‘Cedar Revolution’ against Syrian military and political hegemony over Lebanon. Former Prime Minister, Saad Hariri, said ...
This Is Beirut 2023-12-27 12:25 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The committee of former Lebanese Prisoners in Israel filed an information notice on Tuesday against the Patriarchal Maronite Vicar of Haifa and Jerusalem, Archbishop Moussa el-Hage, and the Patriarchal Vicar of the Syriac Catholic Church for the Holy Land, Archbishop Camille Semaan, for "communicating with the Israeli army." The two Lebanese ...