Lior Soroka

Tel Aviv, Israel

Education: Tel Aviv University, bachelor's degree in Mass Communication and Theater; master of fine arts in Film and Television

Lior Soroka is a Tel Aviv-based freelance reporter covering the Israel-Gaza war and the wider conflict in the Middle East. Soroka worked for Haaretz from 2013 to 2022, focusing on the arts, and in Kan News' podcast division from 2018 to 2021. He is an alumnus of the International Journalists' Programmes.
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U.S. citizen believed held hostage in Gaza was killed on Oct. 7, IDF says

Omer Neutra, a U.S.-Israeli citizen believed held hostage by Hamas, was killed on Oct. 7, 2023, the Israeli military said Monday.

December 2, 2024
Orna Neutra, the mother of American hostage Omer Neutra, who was killed on Oct. 7, 2023, wears a T-shirt bearing his face during a news conference in New York in April.

Israeli cabinet to meet Tuesday to discuss cease-fire deal with Lebanon, officials say

Intense negotiations over the past week have brought Israel and Lebanon closer to a deal, but it has not yet been finalized.

November 25, 2024

Netanyahu says Israel damaged ‘component’ of Iran’s nuclear program in Oct. strikes

Netanyahu said Monday that a “specific component” of Iran’s nuclear program had been damaged in last month’s Israeli attack on Iranian military facilities.

November 18, 2024

Netanyahu fires Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, prompting protest in Tel Aviv

Yoav Gallant had emerged as one of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s fiercest and most public critics over his approach to the war in Gaza and the failure to reach a hostage deal with Hamas.

November 5, 2024

Netanyahu ousts defense minister, a political rival and fierce war critic

Yoav Gallant clashed with Netanyahu over his handling of the war in Gaza and, more recently, over the enlistment of the ultra-Orthodox in the Israeli military.

November 5, 2024
Yoav Gallant, seen at a Thursday ceremony for military combat officers at an Israeli army base, was fired as defense minister Tuesday by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Netanyahu ally accused of leaking documents to derail hostage deal

A former aide to the Israeli prime minister allegedly leaked top-secret military documents to foreign outlets to discredit a possible hostage agreement with Hamas.

November 5, 2024
People gather to protest near Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's home in Caesarea on June 20.

Peacekeepers wounded by Israeli fire in Lebanon, U.N. says, as tensions rise

Israeli forces have fired at three U.N. positions in the south of Lebanon, the United Nations said Thursday, escalating a nearly week-long standoff with peacekeepers.

October 10, 2024

Israel calls up reservists, telling troops to prepare for Lebanon incursion

The moves set off a diplomatic scramble as Hezbollah fired a ballistic missile at Tel Aviv and Israeli strikes killed more people in Lebanon, officials said.

September 25, 2024
An Israeli soldier stands next to tanks after a day of training in the Golan Heights on Sept. 19. The Israeli military said it struck Hezbollah in multiple areas in southern Lebanon.

Lebanon displaced recount fleeing under fire, as Israel vows more strikes

Doctors in the southern Lebanese city of Sidon say wounded patients are arriving with head trauma, multiple fractures and deep cuts from shrapnel.

September 24, 2024
A family sit in the back of a truck heading north from Sidon in southern Lebanon on Tuesday. An onslaught of Israeli air strikes caused thousands to flee and snarled traffic on roads leading to the capital, Beirut.

Netanyahu vows ‘whatever action is necessary’ as Hezbollah clash widens

Israel says its strikes will intensify in a campaign that could include further offensive operations against Hezbollah, opening a new war front. 

September 22, 2024
Moti Fitch, 75, outside his damaged home in Moreshet in northern Israel following a rocket barrage fired from Lebanon that heavily damaged homes and cars on Sunday.