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Subterranean commandos

A Dry Bones cartoon

Subterranean commandos Dry Bones
Credit: Yaakov (DryBones) Kirschen.
Political cartoonist Yaakov Kirschen grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., made aliyah to Israel in 1971 and began drawing “Dry Bones” in January 1973. The internationally syndicated, award-winning cartoons ran in The Jerusalem Post for 50 years. They were reprinted in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, TIME and other mainstream media publications. The “Dry Bones” story has been covered by CBS, CNN and Forbes, among other outlets. He was a member of America’s National Cartoonists Society and the Israeli Cartoonists Society. Kirschen died at 87 on April 14, 2025.

Israel’s tunnel warfare in Gaza is being led by the Yahalom commando unit, the subterranean equivalent to undersea “frog men.”

These Israeli tunnel commandos are armed with Israeli high-tech devices, including ground-penetrating radar, drilling equipment, flying killer drones and unmanned ground vehicle robots armed with remote-controlled machine guns and grenades.

They have been trained for just this situation. They are ready.

Unique weapons, like the tunnel-sealing sponge bombs, are being deployed as the commandos search for hostages and fight the demonic Hamas fighters hiding beneath the streets of Gaza.

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