Security forces

Deadly raid in Ramtha: Jordanian forces kill extremist suspects after firefight

Ramtha is located in northern Jordan near the border with Syria. Over the last decade, it has been a transit area for many Syrian refugees and displaced people.

: Anti-terrorism police secure an area as a raid takes place on November 25, 2025 in Ar-Ramtha, Jordan. The country's Public Security Directorate (PSD) said that security forces raided a site in Ramtha earlier this evening in a search for two brothers wanted by police.
An Israeli soldier guards on the border fence between Israel and Lebanon, northern Israel, November 16, 2025

IDF launches surprise drills in northern Israel after killing Hezbollah's military chief

Ballistic protective vest for women

Israeli company wins bid for female tactical equipment sale to Italian military

Rockets cache discovered by Israeli security forces near Ramallah in the West Bank overnight, September 30, 2025.

Israeli forces seize large rocket cache in West Bank raid near Ramallah


Ex-Mossad counterterror chief slams Qatar’s support for Hamas at Jerusalem Post conference

Oded Ailam warns Israel must reject Qatar as mediator unless it ends support for Hamas and Al Jazeera.

Oded Ailam, Former director of the counter terrorism center of the Mossad, Researcher at the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs (JCFA).

IDSF founder: Israel’s security rests on values, not tech, calls for long-term vision beyond Gaza

Brigadier General (Res.) Amir Avivi warns true victory means eradicating Hamas and securing Israel’s future with values and sovereignty.

Brigadier General (res) Amir Avivi, Founder & Chairman, Israel's Defense and Security Forum.

Israeli moderately wounded after being struck with an iron rod in West Bank altercation

After Civil Administration workers demolished an illegal outpost in the area and left the site, the shuttle carrying the approximately 20 workers was attacked by dozens of Jewish Israelis.

A picture taken from the Palestinian village of Sair shows the Israeli settlement of Metzad on March 15, 2017.

Israeli mistakenly enters Palestinian village in Area B, pelted with stones - report

After accidentally entering Kafr Mukhmas, the Israeli’s vehicle was pelted with stones. They managed to quickly extricate themselves from the situation and locate security personnel.

Israeli soldiers at the scene a Palestinian was shot for throwing stones, in the West Bank city of Hebron, July 28, 2025

The growing cancer of lawbreakers in West Bank must be cut out, before its too late - editorial

The focus of our security forces has rightfully been on the survival of the Jewish state, as the country has fought enemies on seven fronts. But the enemy from within needs to be addressed now.

 A Palestinian man stands next to a burnt car after an attack by Israeli settlers in Kafr Malik, in the West Bank, June 26, 2025.

'Life-threatening risk': Security leaks on social media endanger troops on the ground - committee

"We are in a situation where very significant information, which could assist the enemy, is freely available on social media, and we must stop this,” a Yesh Atid MK said.

 An Israeli tank manoeuvres in Gaza, as seen from the Israeli side of the border, June 17, 2025.

‘2025 must be a year of decision’

Former MK Yoni Chetboun says that Israel must make difficult choices in the coming months

 YONI CHETBOUN addresses the Jerusalem Post Conference in New York last month

Israel must commit to normalizing emotional support, especially among security forces - opinion

Members of the security forces are frequently confronted by horrific scenes, but are among the least likely to seek help.

 ST.-SGT.-MAJ. Igor Pivnev, a policeman praised for his bravery during the October 7 Hamas attacks, had taken his own life.

Politicizing the Shin Bet endangers Israel's national security - opinion

The agency’s extensive powers create significant temptation for the minister responsible for it – the prime minister – to direct the Shin Bet chief to use those powers against political opponents.

 FORMER SHIN BET director Yoram Cohen receives protection amid a stormy scene at the Supreme Court on Tuesday, as the High Court holds a hearing on the cabinet’s firing of the current Israel Security Agency chief, Ronen Bar. Cohen alleges that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked of the Shin Bet

Israeli security echelon pushes for limited Temple Mount access ahead of Ramadan - report

Ramadan often presents a security challenge in Jerusalem, but this may be greater this year given the ongoing seven-front war and Operation Iron Wall in the West Bank.

 MUSLIM WORSHIPERS attend Friday prayers during Ramadan at the al-Aqsa compound last March. For Hamas and its supporters, the war with Israel is a war for the Temple Mount, the writer contends.

Inside a US security firm's risky Gaza mission

US contractors have been deployed to a Gaza checkpoint amid Israel-Hamas truce

 Israeli military helicopters land, ahead of the expected arrival of released Israeli hostages, who have been held in Gaza since the deadly October 7, 2023 attack by Hamas, as part of a prisoner-hostage exchange deal between Israel and Hamas, in Reim, southern Israel, January 25, 2025.