Tag: IDF
IDF’s cyber defenders prepare their responses for the ‘unknown threat’
The cyber defenders of the Israel Defense Forces are preparing to deal with future unknown threats that will not resemble the dangers known today, a senior cyber officer has told JNS.
Military assessments place cyber...
‘Everybody into the pool’: IDF combat soldiers make quite a splash
When Or, 21, a front-line combat soldier, woke up last Wednesday, he was informed by his commanding officer that he would be given the next day off to spend at the country’s largest water...
‘Operation Good Neighbor’ delivers tents, food, clothing to Syrian refugees via IDF
In a special overnight operation, Israel Defense Forces troops delivered approximately 50 tons of humanitarian aid to Syrian refugees, who are fleeing attacks by Syrian President Bashar Assad on the rebel-held city of Daraa.
Supplies...
Syrian refugees flee to Israeli border for safety against Assad attack
Thousands of Syrian civilians are fleeing to the Israeli border to escape the military bombardment of Syrian President Bashar Assad on rebel-held territories in Daraa province.
Up to 50,000 people have been displaced by airstrikes,...
Palestinian baby did not die from Gaza border clashes, family paid by Hamas to...
A cousin of the 8-month-old baby, Laila al-Ghandour, whose Palestinian parents claim died of tear-gas inhalation during the Gaza border clashes last month, said that the family had been paid to lie about the...
IDF demolishes home of Palestinian man who killed two Jewish soldiers
The Israeli Defense Forces demolished a home on Thursday morning that belonged to Alaa Kabha, a Palestinian who rammed his car into two IDF soldiers earlier this year, killing them both.
Capt. Ziv Daus and...
Israeli paratroopers say training on Polish soil brought ‘great meaning to every soldier’
The Israel Defense Force completed significant battle training exercises abroad this month, with Israeli paratroopers conducting drills on Polish soil for the first time ever and the Israeli Air Force working on its long-range...
Palestinians launch kite with explosive along Gaza border amid latest clashes
More than 10,000 Palestinian rioters have gathered along five locations along the Israeli-Gaza border on Friday in the latest round of clashes.
The Israel Defense Forces said rioters were burning tires and throwing grenades, pipe...
Hamas in Gaza fails to ignite similar violence in the West Bank
One of the major objectives of Hamas is to spread violence and instability from its own turf in the Gaza Strip across the State of Israel to the West Bank—a goal that Hamas leaders...
An IDF soldier’s description of experience in Gaza
A place with so much meaning.
Words cannot describe the situations my comrades and I have been through.
The first time we got to the border we couldn’t imagine how the next 4 months would be...