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“We came back a little prouder of what we do. It sharpened something in our sense of mission,” say Israeli officers who visited American Jewish communities.
“The IDF is a strong, offensive and responsible army, which operates in many arenas, in all dimensions, and in effect fulfills its mission as Israel’s defense forces,” says IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi at a Yom Kippur War memorial ceremony.
Harold “Smoky” Simon not only helped found the Israeli Air Force in May 1948, but also World Machal, whose thousands of volunteer soldiers have served alongside the nation’s military.
Friends of Nahal Haredi has been instrumental in assisting integration in the Israeli military, though its president cautions that the process will be one that occurs over generations.
Israeli court rejects an appeal by the suspects’ families, paving the way for the demolition of the two family homes near Hebron.
“Congratulations to our first female commander of an operational squadron in the air force. We’ve been waiting for you for 71 years,” says IAF chief Maj. Gen. Amikam Norkin.
Friends of the Israel Defense Forces are providing High Holiday gift cards to some 9,000 soldiers in need and lone soldiers serving in the Israel Defense Forces.
Two Israeli military jeeps crash into each other during clashes near Hebron; IED found near Joseph’s Tomb in Nablus; two rioters reportedly injured by rubber bullets.
Israel’s national electric company says it has begun reducing power supplies to Palestinian areas in Judea and Samaria due a financial dispute with the Palestinians’ main power distributor.
While the idea isn’t new, it hasn’t really been seriously discussed in while. Proponents say that a narrow defense treaty would add a layer of deterrence to enemy aggression, but critics caution that it could undermine the relationship between the two democracies.
Raising the issue of a defense treaty now is “clearly election propaganda” and doesn’t reflect mature policy, says former IDF Military Intelligence head Amos Yadlin.
Countries that allow “terrorist armies” to entrench themselves will “suffer the consequences,” says IDF chief of staff; Israel “will not cease” efforts to return captive, missing soldiers.
