Tag: IDF Soldiers
Lod placed under lockdown after Arab rioting, Netanyahu vows to ‘restore order
The central Israeli city of Lod was placed under emergency lockdown on Tuesday night to clamp down on violence undertaken by Arab residents there.
The population of about 80,000 Jews and Arabs saw rioting and...
One Israeli killed, three wounded by Hamas anti-tank missile near Gaza border
One Israeli was killed, two were seriously wounded and a third sustained light injuries when Hamas fired an anti-tank missile from Gaza at an Israeli vehicle near the border on Wednesday morning.
The wounded were...
Netanyahu promises reform after disabled veterans stage mass protest in Tel Aviv
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with disabled Israel Defense Force veterans on Sunday in Tel Aviv, hours after hundreds of veterans blocked the city’s Ayalon highway in protest against their treatment by the...
Yom Hazikaron ceremony pays tribute to 60th year since sinking of ‘Egoz’
The Jewish Agency for Israel’s annual Yom Hazikaron ceremony—Israel’s Memorial Day—held on Wednesday honored a tragic event in Jewish history, as well as fallen soldiers, terror victims and those injured or killed in anti-Semitic...
Memorial Day ceremony honors fallen Israeli soldiers from ‘haredi’ units
A memorial service in honor of fallen Israel Defense Forces soldiers and those from the haredi (ultra-Orthodox) units, adapted for the religious community, was held at Jerusalem’s Shalva Hall on Tuesday night and broadcast online to...
In first, Israel’s Arab sector holds Memorial Day service
In a historic first, a Memorial Day ceremony was held on Tuesday to commemorate fallen Arab soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces.
The event, which took place in the Arara village in the Negev Desert,...
A bereaved Israeli mother shares her son’s legacy of optimism
Daniel Marash was 22 when he returned to Israel from Belgium, where he attended a music festival featuring many of the artists that he had followed and loved.
It was the summer of 2014, and...
A tribute to the bereaved parents of unsung fallen Israelis
As Israel enters the 24-hour period that marks Yom Hazikaron—Memorial Day for Fallen Soldiers and Victims of Terrorism—the country turns its attention to individual stories of heroism and bereavement. The annual tradition, enacted into...
Intersection of history: How the IDF regularly interacts with Holocaust survivors
Despite the many restrictions forced on it by the coronavirus pandemic, the Israel Defense Forces is continuing its multiple Holocaust-education programs and its direct contacts with survivors this year—activities seen as an essential part...
‘IDF is the Jewish people’s army’: New FIDF CEO sees mission to connect Diaspora...
From the milking shed in his father’s upstate dairy farm to the pulpit of a high-profile Beverly Hills synagogue to guiding the Orthodox Union (OU) through a period of great growth, Rabbi Steven Weil...