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They will be equipped with their own arsenal of high-tech weaponry and can be expected to receive missions to attack the most sensitive enemy targets.
Hezbollah’s special forces, combined with Iraqi Shi’ite militias, were supposed to infiltrate Israel, traveling through the tunnels along various routes on the Israeli-Lebanese border, from the Mediterranean Sea to Mount Dov.
A new series of videos addressed to the CEO of the New Israel Fund, Daniel Sokatch, call on him to stop funding organizations that delegitimize Israel and the IDF in the upcoming year.
The report indicates that the number of “haredi” recruits has increased by 50 percent in recent years, with half of those serving in combat units.
The female kosher supervisors will undergo a military course for two-and-a-half weeks before taking up positions in kitchens and food-preparation facilities in army units.
Infantry, engineering and armored forces simulate fighting conditions in Gaza’s densely populated neighborhoods, sewer systems and grid of Hamas terror tunnels • GOC Homefront Command: In the next war, people in Tel Aviv won’t be sitting in cafes.
The new bunker war room, code-named “Fortress of Zion,” is expected to become fully operational in the next few weeks. It will replace the current IDF bunker, dubbed “The Pit,” which was built in 1966.
Commandos involved in Khan Yunis mission entered Gaza at different times from different locations and had Palestinian collaborators, Hamas official tells Lebanese paper.
The exercise, dubbed “Sky Angels,” attracted air-force search-and-rescue teams from the United States, Canada, Croatia, Italy, Holland and the Czech Republic.
Palestinian driver swerves and hits soldiers on patrol south of the Gush Etzion junction in Judea, frequented by both Jews and Palestinians • Two soldiers sustain light injuries, one in moderate condition • Terrorist shot and pronounced dead at the scene.
Maj. Gen. Aviv Kochavi will replace current IDF Chief Gadi Eizenkot, who is due to retire on Jan. 1.
Israeli soldiers from the Maglan, Egoz and Duvdevan commando units took part in a major drill last week and will continue this week to prepare for possible simultaneous warfare in the south and north.
