This is a “bucket brigade”: an old copywriting trick to grab a reader’s attention. We used it at the beginning of the article to stop readers from hitting the back button and going back to Google (i.e. increase our dwell time). ...
Footnote44 Even the 7th armoured brigade – the IDF’s most illustrious regular tank force that had participated in all of Israel’s wars since 1948 and took the main brunt of the Syrian assault in the 1973 war – was on the brink of closure, only to be saved by a wave of public ...
The use of this “Brigade” instead of conventional naval personal is most telling. Their rehearsal of the event is also most telling. These “special operations” units have closer ties to the intelligence community than conventional forces do. Very often the members of these units are “tempo...
A closer inspection of document membership weights for these cases shows that this phe- nomenon generally arises from the repeated appearance of one small "outlier" topic and one large "merged" topic encompassing the rest of the documents in the corpus (e.g. the examples shown in Table 4(b...
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The IDF recently said that the troops of the Nahal Brigade, under the command of the 162nd Division, were preparing for their next missions after weeks of operations in the Beit Hanun area in the northern Gaza Strip. All of this points to an important operation in the northern West Bank....