Dave Bender
ARTICLES BY: Dave Bender
IDF Officer Led From The Front: ‘If Anyone Dies, It’ll Be Me, First’
An IDF infantry officer who fell in battle in Gaza on Friday, once said, "I always made sure I was first in to sweep structures...
IDF Soldier Adopts Mutt, Abandoned in Gaza Fighting
During a bout of fighting in Gaza last week, an IDF soldier adopted a starving, weak dog he found wandering among the rubble. St.-Sgt. Roee Cohen...
Israeli Gaza-Area Residents Dreading IDF Pullback; ‘Tunnel Threat Taking Fear to New Level’
"We have survived rocket attacks for 14 years, and, while disturbing and frightening, we have somehow adapted," a Kibbutz Alumim resident told The Algemeiner on...
Israeli Border Policeman Dives Headfirst Into Car to Foil Bombing Bid (VIDEO)
A quick-thinking Israeli Border Police officer averted a suicide car bombing last Sunday, when he dove head-first through the window to wrest control of the...
Arab Riot Forces Israeli Police to Abandon Temple Mount Station, Weapons, Computers Looted
After retreating from mobs of Arab rioters who swarmed the Temple Mount in Jerusalem last Friday, off-record, some frustrated and embarrassed officers are now asking,...
Widow of Fallen Soldier Gives Birth: ‘It’s Sad That Danny Isn’t Here’
Joy was diluted with grief in Israel's Ethiopian immigrant community on Thursday. Baynesain (Danny) Kasahun, who was killed last week in a terror attack near Kibbutz...
UNRWA Spokesman Chris Gunness Breaks Down Sobbing During Interview (VIDEO)
United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) Spokesman Chris Gunness was unable to hold back tears, during an interview with Qatar's Al Jazeera television on...
IDF Marksman Comes Face to Face With Terrorists in Nighttime Gaza Clash (VIDEO)
In a brief, intense video clip released by the army Thursday, IDF troops engage Palestinian terrorists in an overnight building-to-building firefight. In the clip, a Givati...
Wounded Israeli Soldier, Israeli Pop Star in Live Hospital Ward Duet
An IDF soldier wounded in Israel's three-week-old Operation Protective Edge in Gaza joined one of the country's biggest pop stars in a live radio gig...
IDF Footage Shows Special Forces Storming Booby-Trapped House in Gaza” (VIDEO)
The Israeli Army on Wednesday released a video clip of a what they said was a "special forces" unit "storming a terrorist building in Shuja'iya,"...
Residents of Nahal Oz Respond to Video of Hamas Attack – ‘How Can Children Continue to Live Here?’ (VIDEO)
Kibbutz Nahal Oz irrigation specialist Danny Rahamim was supposed to have harvested his sunflower crop alongside Gaza, in another two weeks. But Wednesday morning, he watched the...
Poll: 78% of Israelis Oppose Ceasefire in War Against Hamas
On the 23rd day of the IDF's Operation Protective Edge in Gaza, while the government is seeking a viable cease-fire, the average Israeli is saying...
Israeli Mother to Fallen IDF Son: ‘You Were Taken Too Soon’
Close-knit residents of Safed, in Israel's Upper Galilee, packed into its small military cemetery on Tuesday, to lay to rest IDF St.-Sgt. Eliav Eliyahu Haim...
Wounded Israeli Soldier Insisted on Attending Friend’s Funeral (VIDEO)
While IDF soldier Gal Ganon was laid up in a hospital bed at Tel Hashomer Hospital near Tel Aviv, wounded in fighting in Gaza, he...
