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Soldiers in the Netzah Yehuda Battalion, a Haredi unit, and family members attend a swearing-in ceremony at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City on July 10, 2024. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.
A single night in Jerusalem made me rethink everything I knew about Israel
Unity is powerful, offering clear evidence against the idea that this society is fractured to the point of civil war.
Moshe Phillips
June 17, 2025
The Israel Defense Forces delivers supplies to Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Nov. 15, 2023. Source: IDF.
Unforgivable: Yair Golan’s blood libel
If there are those who cannot agree that the Israel Defense Forces are a force of good and not cruelty, then we have lost something far greater than a political argument.
Avi Abelow
May 25, 2025
Israel's Democrats Party leader Yair Golan holds a press conference in Tel Aviv on May 20, 2025. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90.
License to kill
It is only natural that those who hate Israel—from the halls of power to mobs in the street—will find validation, justification and even encouragement to intensify their efforts.
Douglas Altabef
May 23, 2025
Israeli soldiers dance and enjoy a live concert of Israeli singer Idan Raichel at an army base in southern Israel, Oct. 31, 2023. Photo by Chen Schimmel/Flash90.
Army service as the antidote to the mourning of the Omer
The light of unity and commitment to Jewish values will help us move toward the receiving of the Torah commemorated on Shavuot.
Rabbi Dr. Kenneth Brander
May 19, 2025
Israeli soldiers operate in Judea and Samaria, March 27, 2025. Credit: IDF.
Israeli soldier wounded in blast in Samaria
Troops circled and locked down Beita and Udala near Nablus in search of the terrorists responsible for the blast.
May 1, 2025
At a Yom Hazikaron ceremony are (from left) Rabbi Marvin Hier, co-chair of the Museum of Tolerance Jerusalem; Yossi Cohen, former director of the Mossad and current president of the IDF Widows and Orphans Organization’s Friends Association; Danny Danon, Israeli ambassador to the United Nations; and Larry A. Mizel, chairman of the museum, April 29, 2025. Credit: IDFWO.
Ex-Mossad chief: ‘Iranian threat is moral challenge, not just strategic’
The Memorial Day ceremony held at the Museum of Tolerance in Jerusalem was a beautiful, sorrowful tribute to the bereaved families of the servicemen and women who were killed over the past 18 months.
Natan Galula
May 1, 2025
IDF Lt. Jonathan Gutin. Credit: Courtesy.
A home for lone soldiers is planned, envisioned by fallen son of immigrants 
Lt. Jonathan Gutin, 20, was not required to battle terrorists on Oct. 7. He did anyway, telling his commanding officer: “I’m with you all the way.”
Etgar Lefkovits
April 30, 2025
Cpl. N, a lone solider in the Israel Defense Forces, April 2025. Credit: Courtesy.
‘Proud to represent our nation,’ says lone soldier from Canada
“I come from a Zionist home—love for Israel was everything,” says Cpl. N, 20, who serves as a combat fitness instructor based in Ramat Aviv.
Amelie Botbol
April 30, 2025
A Memorial Day ceremony at Yad Labanim in Psagot. Photo by Shalom Tzuberi/TPS.
At one settlement, four fallen soldiers and a terror victim
Psagot's Rabbi Shlomo Yosef Weitzen discusses dealing with the painful loss of his son and four other members of the community.
Tal Weiss
April 29, 2025