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The IDF discovered a 1.5 mile long terror tunnel that led from Gaza to Kibbutz Ein Hashlosha.
Defense Minister Moshe "Boogie" Yaalon checks out the F-35.
When a war is raging between two sides and on the border of their common enemy – Israel – it is only as matter of time until IDF soldiers would be injured, either by stray or intended fire. This time, the IDF hit back.
Abbas is doing a great job to make the PA non-existent. He claims cooperation with the IDF is great but the IDF must stop entering Arab cities to arrests terrorists. Even Livni is not that naïve to agree.
An Israeli Air Force drone crashed into the Mediterranean Sea off the coast south of Tel Aviv Tuesday, the second drone crash in three months. The Navy picked located the debris of the Hermes 450 UAV and brought it experts to analyze the reason for the malfunction, which probably was in the engine, according to […]
Efforts to bring Hollywood stars to Israel have extended to include Latin America, with a delegation of TV personalities and news executives arriving Monday from Central and South America as well as from the United States for a week-long visit. The trip was announced by America’s Voices in Israel (AVI), part of the Conference of […]
Mortar shells from pro and anti-Assad forces landed next the border fence at the Golan Heights Tuesday morning, forcing Israelis to halt maintenance work and vacate the area. Ten Syrian civilians crossed the border where there is no fence to take refuge, and the IDF so far has not sent them back.
By JTA
Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon and U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel will meet in Washington to discuss “regional security challenges.” The defense chiefs are scheduled to meet Tuesday at the Pentagon, according to a statement from Pentagon spokesman Carlin Woog to JTA. Israel has welcomed the results of a threat by the Obama administration to […]
Several hours before a PA terrorist gunned down a nine-year-old Jewish girl in Psagot, PA security forces in Jenin cracked down on local criminals while Hams tried to set up cells under the PA’s nose.
“Peace talks” resumed on condition of Israel’s freeing 104 terrorists, one batch at a time as a test of PA “peace.” Abbas did not keep his end of the deal, but you can count on Israel to let him off the hook.
By JTA
The Obama administration underscored potential cuts in defense assistance to Israel in making its case against the federal government shutdown. “In the absence of a continuing resolution, we have no FY14 Foreign Military Financing, International Military Education or Peacekeeping Operations funds to obligate,” Marie Harf, a State Department spokeswoman, said Wednesday in prepared remarks about […]
An IDF soldier is in stable condition after being struck in the face by a machine gun bullet that was fired from a tank in his unit near Gaza on Thursday. The tank unit was involved in a military operation, but it is not known why one of the battalion’s soldiers fired the gun and […]
Terror from Gaza resumes. The army spotted two armed terrorists and opened fire before the cell could carry out an attack on a nearby Jewish community. Aircraft are looking for the terrorists.
When we wrote two months ago here that Obama’s reincarnated “peace process” was doomed from the start, we stated the ugly truth: Terrorists would drive in the first nail. Yet, the PA blames Israel.
By Shalom Bear
IDF Staff Sergeant Gal Kobi (20), from Tirat Carmel, was killed on Sunday after being shot by an Arab sniper in Hebron.
Israel security forces have joined the battle against Al Qaeda-linked terrorists, according to a report by a French news agency. Israel and the IDF have not commented on the report. The Israeli forces reportedly are involved either in logistics or in the efforts to rescue hostages and eliminate the Al Shabaab terrorists hold up in […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israel will allow building materials for private projects into Gaza for the first time since 2007, when the Palestinian terror group Hamas seized control of the territory. An Israeli defense official said that Israel’s decision came after a request by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Israel previously has allowed the shipment to Gaza of cement, […]
Even the UN denounced the Palestinian Authority terrorist kidnap-murder of an Israeli soldier, but PA chairman Abbas has nothing to say. Based on previous demands, he should seek release of the killer.
It all started when Israel hit back.
By Shalom Bear
An IDF soldier was kidnapped and murdered by an Arab terrorist he was acquainted with.
The IDF is nothing if not innovative. For soldiers who are on the front lines during the Yom Kippur Fast, the army suggests they suck on popsicles to keep their strength without violating to laws of the fast.
Israel has one life support. It starts with Yom Kippur.
Palestinian Authority Arab terrorists returned to one of their favorite spots south of Jerusalem Wednesday and attack passing Jewish motorists, injuring one girl. Near Hevron, the IDF arrested four Arabs were arrested, including those who had prepared firebombs to hurl at vehicles on Highway 60 at Beit Umar, located between Gush Etzion and Kiryat Arab-Hevron.
The IDF staged a surprise drill Saturday night on Mount Hermon, and Nahal Brigade soldiers used live fire and took over a mock outpost near the border with Syria. The exercise had been planned, and the IDF said it was not necessarily connected to the current tension in the wake of a threatened American military […]
The US, Israel and others might be hit with chemical weapons if they attack, says Assad. But would he use them? Of course not. Not him. But there always is Hezbollah. Or rebels. But not Assad. Never.
Abbas in 2003: ‘We reject terrorism in all forms.' In 2013: there’s no difference between our policies and those of Hamas.’ Results of his ‘Peace Process’ are 5,700 attacks in first six months of 2013.
An officer and a soldier were lightly injured on Friday from rocks thrown by Arabs during riots in Judea and Samaria. The officer was injured in Kfar Kadum, west of Sh'chem, and the soldier was injured in Bal'in, west of Ramallah. Both received medical care on the spot. In Bitunia, north of Jerusalem, dozens of […]
Lt.-Colonel Shalom Eisner, who was suspended from duty after striking a foreign anarchist, has reached a plea bargain with the IDF.
A joint US-Israel missile launch is not such a big deal - unless it comes when Obama plans an attack on Syria. If the test was designed to scare the dickens out of everyone, it was a huge success.
Terrorists from Hamas-controlled Gaza set off the second bomb in four days Morning in an attempt to blow up an Israeli army vehicle. The powerful bomb exploded near the army vehicle without causing any damage or injuries. An IDF bulldozer plowed the area and uncovered another explosive device that was to be set off by […]
Bayit Yehudi announced that NIS 65 million of government funding earmarked for Hesder and Haredi Yeshivas will be transferred before Rosh Hashanah. The money was supposed to have been transferred a while ago, but Yair Lapid's Finance Ministry has been holding up the transfer after they realized that Haredi Yeshivas would also benefit from this […]
Approximately a dozen Israeli Air Force jetfighters carried out reconnaissance flights over Lebanon since Friday, reflecting the high alert over possible attacks on Israel if the United States attacks Syria. Hezbollah has tens of thousands of missiles in Lebanon and is fighting in Syria alongside loyalists to Syrian President Bassar al-Assad, who has threatened to […]
Remember this the next time Kerry claims Israel’s oppression of Arabs, by giving them equal opportunity, is the reason for hate and violence. Two Arab workers at a Jerusalem mall tried to blow it up.
Russia sends an anti-sub ship and missile cruiser to the Mediterranean, Britain sends jets, and Iran threatens Doom. If anyone needs to worry about a US attack on Assad, it is Israel, but Netanyahu stays calm.
The IDF was scheduled to shut down civilian air space in the north as the United States prepares to attack Syria. Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon, IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz and the commanders of the Home Front and Air Force discussed the impending attack on Syria in an emergency meeting Thursday afternoon. Additional defense […]
At an annual ceremony honoring fallen soldiers, Minister of Defense Moshe Ya’alon and Chief of the General Staff Lieutenant General Benny Gantz discussed the situation in the Middle East and Syria, and the IDF’s duty to protect the State of Israel. IDF Chief of the General Staff, Lieutenant General Benny Gantz, said that the IDF […]
Patriot missile batteries were involved in three friendly fire incidents, resulting in the downing of allied planes.
An IDF investigation into the events in Qalandiya this morning confirmed that Arabs shot at the IDF troops with guns during the riot, when they attacked the soldiers with blocks and firebombs.. Four bullets were found inside one of the jeeps that had been shot at by the Arab rioters.
By JTA
Requests by Israeli citizens for gas mask kits have risen fourfold in recent days as concern over events in Syria has increased. Citizens have been visiting post offices throughout the country to pick up their Atomic Biological Chemical protective kits, or ABC kits, over fears of the threat of a chemical weapon attack from Syria […]
By Shalom Bear
IAF is investigating how the Grad rockets got through the Iron Dome defense system.
Photos show property damage from a missile the exploded at a kibbutz in the north Thursday. A miracle saved people from injuries.
It was only a matter of time until the northern border heated up. Four enemy missiles were launched along the northwestern coast. The IDF intercepted one of them. No injuries were reported.
Roger ‘Pink Floyd’ Waters learns not to start up with Israelis, especially a woman. And especially supermodel Bar Rafaeli. She exposed his hypocrisy of boycotting Israel but using her photo for his concerts.
Israel is seeking an increase in U.S. military aid because of increasing security needs and new US sales of advanced weapons to Arab nations in the Middle East, Defense News reported. Israel is seeking a surge in future US Foreign Military Financing (FMF) grants not only to support its growing security requirements, but to offset […]
By JTA
The Iron Dome battery was moved to the Sharon region north of Tel Aviv for the first time, and is in position to protect Netanya, Hadera and other central Israel cities, according to the IDF. Military spokesmen said that the battery is being deployed as part of the regular operational process, and is the sixth […]
One of the least talked about issues in “peace talks” is security. Kerry “thinks,” pardon the term, that Abbas has stopped terror, so why didn’t the PA, instead of the IDF, raid Jenin to arrest a terrorist?
A Palestinian Authority suicide bomber ten years ago Monday night, on the Hebrew calendar, exploded his charge and killed seven people, including American Israelis Dr. David Applebaum and his daughter Nava the evening before her wedding date. Slightly less than two years ago, Palestinian Authority terrorist Ibrahim Muhammad Yunus Dar Musa, who helped plan the […]
Marines in Afghanistan and IDF combat soldiers in Gaza have a common goal of fighting terror, but the maneuvers are not the same, enabling the IDF and the Marines to teach other a thing or two.
Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef, newly elected Chief Sephardi Rabbi of Israel, said in a recent Torah lesson that he often threatened students in his yeshiva that they must enlist in the IDF if they did not learn Torah. Delivering a “shiur” (Torah lesson} in Kfar Chabad, Rabbi Yosef said that youth who are not able to […]
This half million shekel missile takes out whatever it hits.
Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey landed in Israel Monday afternoon to begin talks with Israel and later with Jordan, where American troops are stationed. Syria will top his agenda in Jordan, which has been flooded by Syrian refugees and where there has been a spillover in fighting in the Syrian […]
By JTA
Gen. Mark Welsh, the chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force, has completed a secret visit to Israel, where was the guest of the Commander of the Israel Air Force, Maj.-Gen. Amir Eshel. Welsh met with senior officers and defense personnel, including Chief of the General Staff, Lt.-Gen. Benjamin Gantz, and was hosted at […]
The Palestinian Authority again has failed to reign in terror and left the “dirty work” for the IDF, which arrested an Islamic Jihad leader in a pre-dawn raid in Jenin Wednesday. Approximately 15 local Arabs rioted and threw rocks and Molotov cocktails and rolled burning tires at the soldiers, according to the Bethlehem-based Ma'an News […]
The IDF has ordered the immediate closure of the Eilat Airport to incoming flights but is allowing planes to leave. The military did not explain the order except to say that the decision was made “following an evaluation of the situation.”
The IDF reported Wednesday that four soldiers were wounded at the Lebanese border in “operational activity.” No names, No location. No nothing. Now Hezbollah says, “We did it.” IDF replies: Comment.
Haredi Knesset Member Moshe Gafni said he doesn’t mind if yeshivas are monitored to make sure those enrolled are learning so long as universities get the same treatment. He had commented in the Maariv newspaper that students who do not actually learn day and night in yeshivas should serve in the army. MK Gafni, answering […]
An explosion wounded four Israeli soldiers at the Lebanese border overnight, but the IDF is not releasing any information on the incident and whether it was an attack or a result of a maneuver. An IDF statement said the soldiers “were wounded last night by an explosion during operational activity in the north.” The soldiers […]
Israel is so used to terror that it feels great when there are “only” 50 a month in Judea and Samaria. The US always gives Abbas credit for the reduction but never seems to blame them for attacks.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Christian enlistment in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has nearly tripled in the past year, going from 35 to 100, with another 500 Christians doing national service, according to the Israeli Prime Minister’s office. On Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Father Gabriel Nadaf, a Greek Orthodox priest from Nazareth and spiritual leader […]
At least two of four people killed in a bus-truck crash on Israel’s high-speed Highway 6 (Kvish 6) Sunday have been identified as soldier Cps. Chai Ben Naim of Rishon LeTzion, near Tel Aviv, and First Sergeant Kfir Dahari of Yavne, south of Rishon LeTzion. The names of the other two victims have not been […]
The Tel Aviv Local Planning and Building Commission approved on Wednesday the "Keren HaKirya" plan for an 80-story high office, commercial and residential tower, which will be Israel’s tallest skyscraper, the Globes newspaper reported. The IDF headquarters are located on the nine-acre site, owned by the Israel Lands Administration. Four towers will be built, two […]
Hundreds of US Air Force personnel have arrived to Israel for the purpose of participating in the joint "Juniper Stallion 13" exercise, one of the largest exercises held together by Israel and the US. Dozens of US Air Force and IAF squadrons are presently located at the IDF Nevatim Airbase ahead of the exercise, which begins on […]
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Will the United Nations, which has condemned Israel for alleged war crimes, also censure it for treating nearly 220,000 PA Arabs Israeli hospitals, including Hamas’ prime minister’s brother-in-law?
Best-selling American author and entrepreneur Harvey Mackay recently visited the IDF Home Front Command, learned about its training and life-saving missions abroad, and came away as another unofficial ambassador for the IDF. Mackay, author of five New York Times best-selling business books, viewed a video documenting the IDF’s life-saving work in Haiti following the disastrous […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Barak 8 medium-range missile is designed to intercept airborne threats, including anti-ship missiles.
Syrian rebels claimed on Saturday that the Israeli Air Force bombed a convoy of missiles headed from Syria for Hezbollah, while Lebanon reported that IAF planes flew over several regions of the country. The Lebanese El-Nashra website reported that Israeli jets bombed Syrian posts. .No other source has confirmed a strike on a missile convoy. […]
Netanyahu says freeing terrorists is unjust, is against public opinion, and is painful. So why do it? Because it is in the “interest of the State,” meaning John Kerry is in charge of Israel’s security.
The only IDF soldiers who are capable of jumping from a plane to strike the enemy are the Paratroopers. See the video to see how they train for the big jump.
IDF soldiers identified and arrested a Palestinian Authority terrorist who was carrying a pistol and ammunition in Samaria with the intention to open fire on a bus traveling nearby. Two buses were hit by gunfire in the same area in two separate incidents over the past four weeks. “Security forces conducted surveillance operations in anticipation […]
The PA’s all-or-nothing position years ago robbed itself of enjoying Israel’s superhighway. Now it refuses train lines that would propel economic growth. Why? Because it would help those awful settlers.
Shortly after 10 pm on Tuesday evening, a shock grenade exploded near soldiers manning the Maccabim checkpoint on Road 443, near Modiin. One person was lightly injured. It is not clear if the grenade was thrown at the soldiers, or if one of the soldier's grenades exploded.
Watch for free the best theatre in the world. After the Knesset passed a bill on first reading to require all Jews to service in the IDF, Haredi MKs tore their shirts in mourning. Act Two to follow.
Arabs threw 5 firebombs at IDF soldiers near the northern entrance of Efrat in Gush Etzion. No other details are available at this point in time.
If there is any question why Israel has enforced a maritime cargo on the Gaza Coast, it was removed with the release of a gag order that the Navy stopped a weapons smuggling ship in the Red Sea.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Maybe a bit of flattery for the IDF by the folks who are targets for Arab rock throwers will keep the military on its toes. Jews in Samaria saluted the IDF Friday for making roads safer – for now.
Iranian TV reported that official sources in Syria are denying the CNN report from Friday, that the IAF last weekend bombed Latakia harbor in Syria. Friday's CNN report cited three unnamed U.S. officials who said that the blasts that took place at the critical Syrian port of Latakia were the result of airstrikes by Israeli […]
Most foreign media always give Israel the dirty end of the stick and make its enemies smell like roses. The IDF has put Hezbollah, Israel’s most immediate threat, in the crosshairs of a new media weapon.
Did you know that a Jew serving in the IDF is against the religion of Jewish children in New York? And it’s okay to beat Haredi soldiers? No, you don’t. But we all know hatred destroyed the Holy Temple.
Hezbollah is not just a threat to Israel from Lebanon. It is spying on the Golan Heights, which Nasrallah threatened to turn into a new front. The IDF is forming a new division in the Golan.
Arab MK Zoabi calls Israel a Nazi-Apartheid state. MP TIbi says a suicide bomber is a martyr, not a terrorist. And Christian Arab Bashara Shlayan, fed up with them, is forming a pro-Zionist Arab party.
There are Haredim and there are Haredim. Some fight for IDF. Others fight against the state and, as on Tuesday, attack Haredi soldiers. Police rescued him and patrolled the streets of Mea Shearim.
Syrian rebels have implicitly fingered Israel for the bombing of Russian-made Yakhont anti-ship missiles near the Syrian port of Latakia last week, a bombing that the Assad regime has blamed on a group linked with Al Qaeda terrorists. It was not the FSA [Free Syrian Army] that targeted this," the rebels’ army spokesman Qassem Saadeddine […]
Israeli soldiers on Tuesday found fragments of a Grad missile that was fired on the city from the Sinai Peninsula last Thursday, when residents heard at least two explosions. The military went on high alert over the weekend because of the violence in Egypt and clashes in the Sinai.
Two and half years after then Defense Minister Ehud Barak removed the Har Bracha yeshiva from the Hesder program, the new Defense Minister, Moshe "Boogie" Ya'alon reinstated them. Ehud Barak kicked the Yeshiva out of Hesder following statements by the Rosh Yeshiva, Rabbi Eliezer Melamed, where he said that he supported not following all army […]
‘Lt. B.’ came to Israel to learn Torah for a year and go back to NJ for university. He thought about the army and the Air Force grabbed him, fulfilling his childhood wish to be a pilot. Read and be proud.
Following an F-16 crash, the IDF special rescue unit 669 pulls out the flight crew from the Mediterranean ocean.
Soldiers were particularly admonished to be respectful of Muslims at crossings through the security fence in Judea and Samaria.
Drama off the Gaza coast: The pilot and navigator of an F-16i training jet were rescued from sea one after after their plane's engine died and broke up on Sunday.
By Ben Sales
JERUSALEM – The large white poster is topped by a screaming headline written in large black letters: “Hell.” Posted on a wall in Jerusalem’s haredi Meah Shearim neighborhood, the sign describes a development that threatens the community with “extinction” and “makes all living hearts tremble.”
“A woman who doesn’t have much body weight will need a different method to break free from a man who has grabbed her.”
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
IDF soldiers have uncovered a weapons cache during a special raid Wednesday night in Shechem, located in north-central Samaria and where the Palestinian Authority is supposed to be responsible for security. The cache included two pistols, parts of an M-16 rifle, more than 100 ammunition clips, ammunition and other military equipment. The IDF has recovered […]
JERUSALEM – Israel’s cyber weapons will eventually replace the pre-emptive strike role played by the Israel Air Force in the 1967 Six-Day War, according to Israel Defense Forces Brig. Gen. (res.) Yair Cohen, former commander of Israel’s much-vaunted signal intelligence corps Unit 8200.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
Raz explained that he had had "enough with the nonsense that this organization [Breaking the Silence] represents."
It can down medium-range missiles which are outside the capability of the Iron Dome system.
A statistical breakdown of the latest class of IAF graduates, including one who suffered from Tourette's Syndrome as a child.
The U.S. cut $175 million from the $3.1 billion dollars of Foreign Military Financing (FMF) it supplies Israel, as part of across the board cuts in international military aid, according to a report in Ma'ariv. Ambassador Michael Oren said Israel would not be asking for an exemption from the cuts, and that Israel would carry […]
Overnight, terrorists threw four firebombs at the Gush Etzion checkpoint near the tunnel entrance to Jerusalem. There were no injuries or damage from the attacks.
By JTA
Israel said a United Nations committee that accused its military of mistreating Palestinian children used recycled information from another U.N. agency’s report. The Foreign Ministry said it had responded to a similar report by UNICEF in March and questioned whether the Committee on the Rights of the Child investigation broke any new ground. The United […]
The Shabak (Israeli General Security Services) has removed the gag order on the capture of three of the terrorists who were involved in the murder of Ben-Yosef Livnat at Joseph's Tomb in Shechem in 2011. That attack also wounded five additional Israelis. Two other terrorists involved in the attack have not yet been captured, according […]
The IDF Spokesperson said that the search for a possibly kidnapped soldier has been called off this evening, after all soldiers in the Binyamin and Shomron region had been accounted for. Two separate soldiers reported seeing an IDF soldier being driven off in the back of a Palestinian car in the early evening. The IDF […]
September 4, 2026 
