יום שלישי, כ״ו אלול תשפ״וTuesday, September 8, 2026
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By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The surprise drill will focus on maintaining air superiority, protecting the country’s skies, as well as attacking and gathering intelligence.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The exercise is taking place in the Jezreel Valley area and in the Upper Galilee and will be completed on Tuesday.
The drone unit will be used to capture terrorists before that can even get close to Efrat's borders.
The rocket alert at around 10:00 AM this morning up north, was part of an exercise.
Gazans can expect to hear sirens, gunfire and explosions, and see armed Hamas terrorists - which makes it unclear how this will be different than any other day in Hamas-controlled Gaza.
The IDF Bahadim opening ceremony began with a training exercise.
Members of the Knesset Honor Guard took part in the nationwide civil defense exercise today.
A rocket alert test went off in Tel Aviv, around 10:20 AM on Tuesday.
There was a nationwide missile drill today.
IDF, United Hatzalah and MDA emergency crews were dispatched to an alleged terrorist attack with seriously wounded victims, in the town of Maaleh Shomron on Thursday afternoon. Military, emergency and medical crews scoured the area looking for the wounded and source of the attack for 20 minutes. After not finding anyone or anything wrong, they […]
Additional natural gas, and possibly light oil have been found at the Yam 3 drill site, 16 kilometers off the coast of Ashdod, according to a report in Globes. It's not yet clear how much gas and oil has been found.
I listened to what was supposed to symbolize a massive missile attack - sirens wailing all over Israel.
The first of two sirens went off in Israel at 12:30PM, as the country performs a nationwide drill. Residents are expected to go to their safe rooms for 10 minutes. There will be a second siren alarm later in the day.
A five-day national earthquake preparedness drill, codenamed Turning Point 6, was conducted in Israel earlier this week – and the post-drill conclusions were not reassuring to the country’s citizens.
There's a superstitious thought that when you invite tragedy, it happily walks through the door. A second, more pragmatic view, is that when you prepare for it, you are better able to cope. Israel takes the second view as today we once again take part in the Turning Point 6 nation-wide exercise preparing us not only for earthquakes, but several other disasters.
On Sunday, Israel will be running a countrywide drill to test its preparation in case of a massive earthquake and tsunami. Thousands of emergency personnel, citizens, and even schools will be participating. Announcements will be made on TV and radio as part of the simulation. Some local towns will be continuing with the drill throughout […]
JERUSALEM – As high-ranking American military commanders arrived in Israel this week in advance of the forthcoming Austere Challenge 12 drill with IDF units, Israel’s military resolve was tested by Iranian proxy militias in Gaza and Lebanon during the recent Sukkot and Simchat Torah holidays.
Iran's current three-day military drill, understood as a thinly-veiled and defiant response to the newest round of EU sanctions on its petroleum industry, is intended to demonstrate Iran's ability to retaliate to a US or Israeli attack. But the maneuvers may be having the opposite effect, as more experts are coming to the conclusion that Iran's incessant sabre-rattling and bellicosity seek to mask the obsolete and impotent state of its armed forces.
IDF ground forces practice river crossing. The drill included soldiers from combat engineering, tanks, artillery and infantry units.
Turkey warned 15 companies that submitted bids in a Greek Cypriot tender for oil exploration in a disputed areas of the Mediterranean, to pull out of the project, reported the Turkish Daily News. “The companies which cooperate with GKRY (the Greek Cypriot administration) will not be included in energy projects in Turkey in the future,” […]
The much-publicized joint defense drill planned between Israel and the United States has been postponed in the wake of quickly escalating tensions between the two countries and Iran.
"Austere Challenge" was to be largest-ever anti-missile joint military exercise between Israel and United States.
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