It was the first infantry unit formed exclusively by women. It was the first infantry unit to utilize paratroopers. It was the first infantry unit to fight in the Six-Day War. 2. What is the name in Modern Hebrew for the Israel Defense Forces? Tzahal Madei alef Turai S...
IDF swearing-in ceremony for new recruits, 2013. Flickr/Israel Defense Forces The Biblical Laws of War The most concentrated legal treatment of war is found in Deuteronomy 20:1–21:14.[1] These laws prescribe what to do with the people against whom Israel wages war: Canaanites living in ...
The Haganah self-defense system isa combination of two martial arts systemswhich were originally developed in Israel, Krav Maga and Hisardut, but added military tactics taught in Kapap and Lotar and other hand to hand and armed fighting techniques used by the Israeli Special Forces personal in ex...
The Israeli Defense Forces, after launching the largest military mobilization of troops in its history, has now entered into the "second phase" of its war againstHamasin theGaza Strip. The IDF is supplementing heavy aerial bombardment of the besieged territory with what's been described as...
As of Tuesday, the Israel Defense Forces claimed to have launched "limited, localized, and targeted ground raids" in the south of the country in pursuit of this goal. Two divisions -- the 98th Paratroopers Division and the 36th Division -- are currently involved in the oper...
The world is still waiting to see four days later how Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government will respond to the Iranianattack, which caused "very little damage,"according to the Israel Defense Forces. The IDF said 99% of the 300-plus weapons launched were intercepted or fell ...
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Contradicting original denials, IDF now admits that radical Jewish settler group crossed into southern Lebanon earlier this month After originally denying it, the Israel Defense Forces have now admitted that a group of settlers crossed over into southern Lebanon earlier this month after initially sayi...
One month into the conflict, Israel is expanding its ground offensive in the Gaza Strip on top of airstrike campaigns. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the attacks entered the "second stage" when the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) carried out more ground operations on Oct. 27. Since...
Israeli Ministry of Defense offers private cloud services using Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Center of Computing and Information Systems, or Mamram, selected OpenShift as the new internal cloud solution, to run both VMs and containers on a unified platform with...