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As soon as he participates in his class’s graduation ceremony, he will begin his service as a navigator for IAF fighter jets.
The military works closely with intelligence to launch frequent raids on gun-making workshops as part of a long-term effort to “drain the swamp” of terrorism.
The home of Islam Abu Hamid, who killed Staff Sgt. Ronen Lubarsky by dropping a marble slab on his head in the al-Ama’ari neighborhood near Ramallah in May, was destroyed by IDF troops.
A spate of drive-by shootings sparks concerns of copycat attacks, but defense officials believe that the phenomenon will not spread outside Samaria • As hunt for Givat Asaf killers continues, IDF official says it is “only a matter of time” before they are caught.
After Palestinian gunmen kill, wound 14 Israelis in multiple attacks, U.S. ambassador to Israel blasts Palestinian Authority laws compensating perpetrators for “heinous act” • Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel threatens to bolt government unless cabinet restores security.
Sgts. Yosef Cohen and Yuval Mor Yosef were laid to rest in separate funerals that day after being shot and killed by a Palestinian.
A Palestinian man infiltrated an IDF army post outside the town of Beit El on Friday morning, bashing the head of an Israeli soldier with a rock and seriously injuring him before fleeing to a nearby Arab enclave.
Terrorism threatens both Israeli and Palestinian civilians. The coming weeks will see whether Israel and the Palestinian Authority will be able to contain an escalating situation and roll back the violence, or whether the region will slide into a new and dangerous phase.
The group has visited almost 70 campuses in the United States over the past year, making inroads against false information spread about the Jewish state.
Ashraf Na’alowa, the 23-year-old Palestinian who bound and executed young parents Kim Levengrond Yehezkel and Ziv Hajbi, was found and killed by IDF forces early Thursday.
Seventy years later, Israeli army combat officers have been meeting with veterans of the nation’s first war in 1948, who are telling their stories to the soldiers of 2018.
Israel Defense Forces’ Ombudsman Maj. Gen. (res.) Yitzhak Brick urged the Knesset to name an investigative committee to probe “serious problems with the IDF’s organizational culture.”