Posts Tagged: Israel Defense Forces
IDF Arrests Senior Commander of Palestinian Islamic Jihad Terror Group
JNS.org – The IDF arrested one of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terror group’s senior commanders on Monday. Israel’s Shin Bet security agency stated that PIJ commander...
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell: America’s Support for Israel Has Never Wavered and Never Will
Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell was honored on Wednesday by the World Jewish Congress with its annual Theodor Herzl award at a dinner...
IDF Detonates Islamic Jihad Tunnel Under Israel-Gaza Border, Seven Terrorists Killed
JNS.org - The IDF on Monday destroyed a cross-border attack tunnel on the frontier with the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. The tunnel was under construction and stretched...
Golan Heights Residents on Edge After Latest Cross-Border Exchange of Fire; ‘After Syria Civil War Ends, Guns Will Be Turned on Israel’
Residents of Israel’s Golan Heights region are on edge following the latest exchange of fire on the border with Syria. Early Saturday morning, five rockets were...
Report: Israel Considered, but Ultimately Nixed, Plan to Bomb Syrian Crematorium
Israel studied earlier this year the possibility of bombing a facility near the Syrian capital of Damascus -- which, according to US intelligence, has been...
Netanyahu Greets Israeli Aid Team Upon Return From Earthquake-Stricken Mexico
JNS.org – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed home on Thursday an IDF search-and-rescue delegation at Israel’s Ben-Gurion International Airport upon its return from aiding earthquake-stricken Mexico. “We...
Member of IDF Aid Mission to Mexico: Helping People in Need Is in Our Hearts
As Israelis prepared to celebrate Rosh Hashanah last week, several dozen members of the IDF Home Front Command were packing their equipment ahead of a...
IDF Chief: Israel Seeking to Prevent Iran From Becoming North Korea of the Middle East
Israel’s goal is to “prevent Iran from becoming the North Korea” of the Middle East, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eizenkot said in...
‘Conflict Management’: The Collapse of a Concept
"…to remain at peace when you should be going to war may be often very dangerous." -- Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War, 431 BCE. ... This...
Middle East Expert: In ‘Inevitable’ Next War With Hezbollah, Israel Will Have to Cope With Tunnel Threat, Like in Last Gaza Conflict
A future war between Israel and Hezbollah is “not a matter of ‘if,’ but ‘when,’” a Middle East expert and former Pentagon official told The...
Hebron’s Jewish Community Granted Official Municipal Status
JNS.org – The IDF issued an order on Thursday giving Hebron’s Jewish community official municipal standing. “By force of the order, an administration will be established to represent...
IDF Officer Critically Wounded in Gaza War Promoted in Recognition of Recovery and Return to Service
IDF officer Shai Siman-Tov -- who was critically wounded when a tunnel collapsed on him under the Shuja’iyya neighborhood in the Gaza Strip during Operation...
In First for IDF, Chief Medical Officer Hails From Druze Community
JNS.org – Brig. Gen. Dr. Tarif Bader was sworn in Thursday as the IDF’s chief medical officer, marking the first time in Israel’s history that the position...
In a Test, Israeli Air Force Successfully Intercepts UAV With Patriot Missile
JNS.org – The Israeli Air Force successfully intercepted an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) during a test of its Patriot missile air defense system against new threats. The...
