Tag: IDF Home Front Command
IDF cancels Mount Meron event due to security concerns
The Israel Defense Forces on Thursday ordered the cancellation of an upcoming religious event on Mount Meron in northern Israel due to the ongoing conflict with Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah.
The annual gathering, scheduled for...
250,000 Israelis displaced, bodies identified three weeks after mass murder
Some 250,000 Israelis have been displaced by the war so far, and the Israel Defense Forces are working with local councils to care for devastated communities of traumatized people from the south, including children...
Northern Israel shelters amid suspected Hezbollah infiltration
Air-raid sirens blared across northern Israel on Wednesday night amid claims of drones and paragliders crossing the border from Lebanon.
Alerts were set off in cities including Haifa, Tiberias, Beit She'an, Kiryat Shmona, Metula, Nahariya...
US rescue forces working with Israelis at disaster site in Surfside, Fla., visit Israel
Rescue forces from the United States that worked with the Israeli delegation this summer at the condominium collapse disaster site in Surfside, Fla., arrived in Israel for a week of shared learning, the Israel Defense Forces announced on...
Gantz: Israel’s military superiority not to be imperiled by enemy forces
Israel will not allow Hezbollah to obtain weapons that will harm Israeli military superiority or allow such weapons to reach other Iranian proxies in the arena, vowed Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz during a...
Gantz convenes Emergency Economy Committee as part of national war drill
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz convened a first meeting of the Executive Emergency Economy Committee on Monday as part of a national war exercise to be undertaken this week by the Israel Defense Forces...
New front line: IDF soldiers assist in pandemic preparations for new school year
Thousands of soldiers from the Israel Defense Forces Home Front Command will assist in conducting a Health Ministry nationwide serological testing program for detecting coronavirus antibodies in children, a senior military officer said on...
Wildfire in Jerusalem hills mostly under control, but firefighting efforts continue
The massive blaze that erupted in the Jerusalem hills on Sunday continued to rage on Monday morning, with at least five hotspots still active, according to the Israel Fire and Rescue Service.
The flames have so...
Israeli minister details plans for rocket-proof protection in northern Israeli homes
Israel’s Deputy Defense Minister Alon Schuster met with the heads of local councils in the country’s north and provided details about plans to install rocket-proof protection in homes near the Lebanon border.
Under the Defense...
IDF’s quest to widen efficiency gap with adversaries takes on new urgency
In a remarkable farewell speech delivered on Sunday, the outgoing Deputy Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces, Maj. Gen. Eyal Zamir, delivered a noteworthy warning.
Like deputy chiefs of staff before him, Zamir...