Posts Tagged: Israeli military
UNICEF Acting to Add Israeli Military to List of ‘Grave Violators of Children’s Rights’
JNS.org - The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is spearheading a campaign to include the Israeli military on a UN blacklist of “grave violators of children’s...
Israel Hits ‘Key Terror Infrastructure’ in Gaza After Mortar Attack
JNS.org - The Israeli military hit what it described as “key terror infrastructure” in the Gaza Strip on Thursday in response to three mortar shells fired...
Israel Strikes Hamas Targets in Response to Rocket Fire, Says Iran Inciting War
JNS.org - The Israeli Air Force struck Hamas terror targets in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday night in Israel’s second response to three rockets that...
Should Israeli Officers Turn the Other Cheek?
On Friday, December 13, an Israeli officer and his NCO, standing near a home in the village of Nabi Salih, were verbally assaulted by a young...
War Prevention Is a Top IDF Goal
At the end of October, Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman addressed graduates of a military officer’s course at Training Base 1, deep in Israel’s Negev...
Big Data and Robots Are Part of the IDF’s ‘New World’ of Warfare
JNS.org - United by a common need to analyze huge quantities of streaming data, and to recognize the key information contained within all of it,...
Air Forces From Around the World Train in Israel’s ‘Intensive Playground’
JNS.org - At the Ovda Air Base in southern Israel, fighter jets from different countries line up on the desert runways, waiting for the signal from...
Israel Hosts 8 Nations in Largest-Ever Air Force Exercise
JNS.org - The Israeli Air Force this week launched the largest and most complex aerial exercise in the Jewish state’s history, involving combat pilots and support crews from...
IDF: We Are Prepared to ‘Neutralize’ Hezbollah With ‘Overwhelming’ Force in Next War
JNS.org - Despite the raging civil war to Israel’s north and east in Syria, the Jewish state’s northern border has remained precariously quiet over the last...
Israel Shoots Down Drone Over Golan Heights Border With Syria
JNS.org - The IDF on Tuesday intercepted and destroyed an Iranian-made unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operated by the Lebanese terror organization Hezbollah that entered the...
Amid Rising Syria Tensions, Israel Conducts Largest Military Drill in Decades
JNS.org - The Israeli military on Tuesday commenced its largest military drill in two decades. The exercise, involving tens of thousands of soldiers from all branches of...
As Israel Faces Growing Threat From Enemy Drones, Science Fiction Comes to Life
JNS.org - A quadcopter from the Gaza Strip landed in southern Israel earlier this month, and the IDF released a short message, saying that a unit...
First-Ever Volunteers From Thailand and Honduras Among Newest Batch of IDF Foreign Recruits
This summer, 153 foreign volunteers from 12 different countries are enlisting in the IDF, according to data published on Sunday by the Israeli Defense Ministry. The...
How the Israeli Air Force Is Becoming Like Google and IBM
JNS.org - High up in a building at Israel’s military headquarters in Tel Aviv, a unique department is hard at work, bringing problem-solving techniques from the high-tech...
