Soldiers

Any solution but the obvious: Israel can't rely on aliyah to fill IDF manpower shortage - opinion

The Israeli government and the army should never look to aliyah and the military service of young olim as a solution to a numerical or political problem.

AN IDF reserve soldier reports for a military drill along the border with Lebanon and Syria.
Sergeant-Major (res.) Asael Babad.

IDF Menashe Brigade reservist dies from wounds sustained in Gaza fighting

Brigadier General (res) Amir Avivi ,Chairman and Founder  IDSF-Habithonistim (Israel's Defense and Security Forum)

Amir Avivi: Israel faces more war before a golden age for the Jewish people 

Alon center team (from L): Co-directors Adi Zarka Schwartz and Doron Shabti with IDF educator and Home Front support officer Sher Roval, in Tel Aviv.

Supporting Israel’s soldiers: Alon Center helps reservists rebuild their lives


They would not allow their sacrifice to be forgotten

Ammunition hill honors founders: “The fact that Ammunition Hill has become an inextricable part of Israeli society gives me a sort of comfort".

 Ammunition Hill founders' daughters

Zelensky says ready to hand over N. Korean soldiers in exchange for Ukrainians captive in Russia

This follows Zelensky saying on Saturday that Ukraine had captured two North Korean soldiers in Russia's Kursk region.

 Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky and Commander in Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Colonel General Oleksandr Syrskyi visit an exhibition of new Ukrainian made drone-missiles Peklo dedicated to the Day of Ukrainian Armed Forces, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine December 6.

Israeli innovation: Fabric that changes color in the presence of toxic gas

The development by the Department of Polymer Materials Engineering at Shenkar is part of the "Future Soldier" project funded by the Ministry of Defense.

 Fabric that changes color in the presence of toxic gas

IDF: If ordered, we’ll keep Jabalya cut-off from Gaza City in northern Gaza

Inside the operation in Kamal Adwan hospital • Soldier killed

 IDF soldiers arrest terror suspects and evacuate patients from the Kamal Adwan Hospital in the Gaza Strip.

Alleged Russian spies targeted Ukrainian soldiers at US base, UK court hears

Bulgarian nationals Katrin Ivanova, 33, Vanya Gaberova, 30, and Tihomir Ivanchev, 39, are accused of being part of a sophisticated spying network run by a Russian agent named Jan Marsalek.

 THE KREMLIN, Moscow.

“Ot Chaim”: The national initiative touching Israel’s heart


IDF announces fallen soldier Tamer Othman, killed in the north of the Gaza Strip

Sgt. Othman, 21, from Kfar Yasif, served in the Nahshon Battalion in the Kfir Brigade. 

 Sgt. Tamer Othman.

Father of Filipino fallen soldier to receive permanent residency status in Israel

The decision follows a recommendation from the Population and Immigration Authority, and Basilio will receive his status at the Population Administration office in Tel Aviv on Monday.

Sgt. First Class (res.) Cydrick Garin.

Spirit of service in the IDF: Examining the DNA of the Bnei David ‘mechina’ in Eli

Bnei David in Eli, in the Binyamin region, is now in its 37th year, and its wartime popularity is growing. 

 NEW ASHKENAZI Chief Rabbi Kalman Ber visits the Bnei David study hall, where Jewish philosophy is also taught.

Wounded Israeli soldiers rehabbed remotely with tablets

Tele-rehab is provided with computer tablets distributed free to patients that they use from home two or three times a week.

 DR. AMIHAI LEVKOVIZ and colleagues at Haifa’s Bnai Zion Medical Center.