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The gift coupons, which are valid in the Shufersal supermarket chain, are aimed at giving the soldiers the opportunity to purchase food, clothing, footwear, sports apparel, electronics and other items.
Cpl. N., who prays five times a day and wears a hijab, dreams of a career in the military. “If we don’t fight together, Arabs and Jews, we won’t have a country,” she says.
The Israeli defense establishment has made increasing use of the media to expose intelligence about enemy activity, allowing decision-makers to disrupt the enemy without the associated risk of escalation that comes with direct strikes.
Ricky Arnold tells IAF personnel about his work in space and seeing the Middle East from above, saying, “It’s been very enjoyable. We speak the same language because our jobs are very similar. When you operate aircraft of any kind, it’s a common shared language.”
U.S. former acting National Security Adviser Jacob Nagel reveals nonclassified parts of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s published security and defense outlook. According to the doctrine, Israel is no longer threatened existentially.
In Russia, the notion of a “hero who died for his homeland” is sacred. Every year in Russia, thousands of volunteers search for soldiers who fell defending their homeland from the Nazis during the Great Patriotic War (World War II).
Voting has begun for Israeli military personnel, with 643 ballot boxes set up for Israel Defense Forces soldiers’ across the country, available 72 hours before national polls open on April 9.
“Thirty-seven years have elapsed, but today you returned home. You returned to our homeland, to Jerusalem,” said Israeli President Reuven Rivlin in his eulogy.
“We hope that the leaders of Israel, both political and military, will again show the necessary courage and take the bold actions to bring Hadar home,” said Leah Goldin, whose son was killed on Aug. 1, 2014, during a ceasefire from “Operation Protective Edge.”
The suspects were transferred to an Israeli hospital for treatment.
Friends of the Israel Defense Forces distributed personal-care supplies to soldiers mobilized to serve near Gaza following a spike in Hamas rocket attacks and continued Palestinian protests.
The funeral of Sgt. First Class Zachary Baumel, missing for 37 years since the battle of Sultan Yacoub during the Lebanon War in 1982, will take place at the Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem.
