Four West Bank Palestinians killed in separate incidents
Four Palestinians have been killed since Friday following an escalation of violence near the West Bank border. The four incidents took place in an area prohibited to the Palestinians. Budrus...
View ArticleGilad Shalit tells lone soldiers they are ‘courageous’
Former kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit met 50 lone soldiers in Jerusalem on Thursday and told them they were “courageous and admirable”.Lone soldiers are young men and women who have made aliyah from...
View ArticlePlan for UK reservists in case of war in Israel
The several thousand IDF reservists living in the UK will be given preferential seats on El Al flights in case of war as part of a new contingency plan being prepared by the Defence Ministry and...
View ArticleSisters in step: feisty, funny female fighters for Israel
What is it like to be a woman soldier in the Israel Defence Forces? The 25-year-old Israeli novelist Shani Boianjiu has personal experience of it, and her answer is: a mixture of boredom, fear and...
View ArticleThe media, military and modern Israel
The odds were against it. At the outset, November's Operation Pillar of Defence appeared similar to previous IDF operations, including Cast Lead in 2008, and the 2010 Mavi Marmara incident. In both,...
View ArticlePalestinian rocket may have killed family of BBC journalist, says UN report
A United Nations report yesterday announced that a misfired Palestinian rocket may have killed family members of a BBC journalist during the Israel-Gaza conflict last November. The Associated Press...
View ArticleIDF blasts Refaeli publicity campaign
The decision to make supermodel Bar Refaeli the face of a Foreign Ministry campaign to promote Israeli innovation worldwide has been criticised by the IDF and the Charedi community. An IDF spokesperson...
View ArticleWarsi warns IDF on deaths
The British government has warned Israel about its use of live ammunition following the deaths of a number of Palestinian civilians in Gaza and the West Bank.Foreign Office Minister Baroness Warsi said...
View ArticleIsrael hit by second round of Gaza rockets
More rockets were fired from Gaza into southern Israel this morning after Israel launched an air strike on Gaza on Tuesday in response to a Hamas mortar attack.Sirens sounded in Sderot at 7.33am this...
View ArticleGilad deserves better than this
When details of Gilad Shalit's conversations with military investigators were published last week, a vocal minority criticised him. One Israeli commentator even called for Gilad to stand trial for...
View ArticleAssad ‘has used chemical weapons’
According to Israeli military intelligence, Syrian President Bashar Assad has used chemical weapons against civilians.Head of the research division, Brigade General Itai Brun, announced his team’s...
View ArticleIsrael shoots down drone near Haifa
The Israel Air Force shot down an drone near Haifa on Thursday afternoon.According to sources, the IAF launched fighter jets to bring down the unmanned aircraft believed to have been operated by the...
View Article'Israel hit Syria chemical weapons site over weekend'
According to reports, Israeli aircrafts have attacked a chemical weapons research centre near Damascus.Maariv reported that Israeli war planes entered Syrian airspace early on Saturday morning and hit...
View ArticleSenior Salafist terrorist killed in Israeli air strike
A senior Salafist terrorist has been killed in Gaza.An Israeli Air Force strike killed 29-year-old Hitam al-Mahsal near a Hamas training base on Tuesday morning. Reportedly, Mahsal was responsible for...
View Article'Drone designed by Iranians,' said Israel
Hizbollah has repeatedly denied any connection to a drone which was shot down west of Haifa last Thursday evening. According to the IDF, Israeli radars monitored the unmanned aerial vehicle as it flew...
View ArticleThere will be no escalation with Syria, says Israel
Israel has downplayed the possibility of escalation following its air strikes on Syrian targets over the weekend.Yair Golan, head of the IDF northern command, told Israeli reporters: "It is always...
View ArticleThere will be no escalation with Syria, says Israel
Israel has downplayed the possibility of escalation following its air strikes on Syrian targets over the weekend.Yair Golan, head of the IDF northern command, told Israeli reporters: "It is always...
View ArticleIsrael and Syria exchange fire in the Golan Heights
Israeli and Syrian forces have exchanged fire in the Golan Heights in the latest in a series of incidents on the border.The Syrian army claimed it had destroyed an IDF jeep that it said had infiltrated...
View ArticleIsraeli military chief warns Syria of 'consequences' over attacks
Israeli military’s chief of staff Lieutenant General Benny Gantz has warned Syria’s President Bashar Al-Assad that he will “bear the consequences” if Syria continues to attack Israel.Lt Gen Gantz told...
View ArticleIsraeli coalition crisis over Orthodox draft
Serious tensions have surfaced within the Israeli government over legislation on military enlistment for the Orthodox.At a Peri Committee meeting held on Sunday and Monday, Science and Technology...
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