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The IDF Musical Ensemble will perform with Eden Alene, an active soldier who will represent Israel in the next Eurovision Song Contest.
U.K.-based monitoring group says strikes reported earlier in the week by Syrian state media killed nine combatants, six of them non-Syrians affiliated with the Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorist group.
Troops open fire on suspects the military says were preparing to firebomb an IDF position near Amos junction, wounding one.
Syrian state media reports that the country’s air defenses shot down missiles fired by Israeli jets • U.K.-based monitor group says strikes targeted Iranian facilities and Iran-backed fighters.
“Memory is a source of strength, spirit and values,” says Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi in a letter to all Israel Defense Forces’ personnel ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Unit 81 is working with the Sheba Medical Center to turn non-invasive ventilators that are commonly available into advanced hospital-grade ventilators, as Israel’s Ministry of Health orders its first 1,000 machines.
IDF Home Front Command Maj. Gen. Tamir Yadai: The nation must be prepared for the coronavirus “event” to last a year, we need to discuss “coping strategies,” rather than an “exit strategy.”
Israeli Defense Ministry official: “The decision to leverage the impressive capabilities of our defense industry that is capable of quality production, in record time, of anything—whether it is unmanned aerial systems or ventilators—is paying off and will enable us to reach the goal set.”
The Israel Defense Forces’ deputy chief of staff has one mission these days: bringing the pandemic to its knees. “The military cannot sit on the sidelines when Israel is dealing with an unprecedented event,” he asserts.
In addition to helping deliver food and medicine to nursing homes, members of Israel’s elite Shayetet 13 unit agree to supply 400 filled oxygen tanks a week.
Gaza leader Yahya Sinwar has rejected linking coronavirus aid to talks, but said he saw “a possible initiative to revive this issue” if Israel frees Palestinian prisoners.
“I felt so relieved and at comfort that my mother could be properly honored during my time of mourning,” said Rabbi Shmuel Schwartz, the father of a paratrooper.
