Wounded Haredi soldier completes IDF officers’ course
Haim Treitel, who spent more than a year recovering after being shot in the leg by a Hamas sniper in Gaza, has graduated from the IDF officers’ course.
Haim Treitel, who spent more than a year recovering after being shot in the leg by a Hamas sniper in Gaza, has graduated from the IDF officers’ course.
The unit can accurately drop up to 16 tons of combat material from an altitude of 25,000 feet directly into a tightly defined 50-meter landing zone.
These 450 soldiers are aiming for elite placements, with 75% expressing a direct desire to serve in frontline combat units such as the Golani, Paratroopers, and Kfir brigades.
MDMA-assisted psychotherapy lacks formal medical approval in Israel and the United States, remaining restricted strictly to authorized clinical trial environments.
Yaron was known to those closest to him as an exceptionally modest young man and a gifted pianist, as well as the son of Izhar Shay, a prominent Israeli venture capitalist and former Minister of Science and Technology.
Dr. Haber’s doctoral research focused on wild emmer wheat, an ancient ancestor of modern wheat native to the Fertile Crescent.
The Spanish tourist began shouting slurs—“baby killer,” “genocide”—echoing the rhetoric that has spread globally since the war.
As the soldiers opened the door of their flaming armored vehicle to escape, they found a terrorist standing directly in front of them with another RPG aimed at the vehicle.
An astonishing 99% of eligible Bnei Menashe men volunteer to enlist upon making aliyah.
Despite achieving outward metrics of American success, he felt a persistent sense of professional and personal emptiness that ultimately compelled him to seek a more purposeful path.
Frontline combat units are regularly capturing over 100% of their targeted manpower numbers, rendering the initial recruit caps obsolete.
While the pictures are meant to inspire Muslims, ironically, for many Jewish soldiers, they serve as a powerful and unexpected reminder of what they themselves are fighting for.
Rather than merely documenting battlefield tactics, the long-form interviews focus heavily on the jarring emotional strain of “the whiplash”—the rapid transition between active combat zones and routine family life.
Over the past 45 years almost 300,000 people have volunteered for Sar-El. The experience is so powerful, over half of them have returned multiple times.
His impressive final combat tally of seventeen includes sixteen enemy jets alongside an Egyptian Mi-8 helicopter.
Composed of some 100 highly specialized divers, Yaltam serves as the supreme professional authority for deep-sea engineering, rescue operations, and underwater sabotage neutralization.
Soldiers undergo 18 months of grueling training, including parachuting, navigation, and camouflage, with a dropout rate exceeding 60%, before joining a unit that reports directly to the IDF General Staff rather than regional commands.
Zrihan was killed only nine days after enlisting while participating in a massive supply convoy of approximately 300 vehicles attempting to reach besieged Jerusalem.
In 2015, IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot launched the Gideon Multi-Year Plan to reshape Israel’s military into a what he called a “younger, slimmer, and more cost-effective force”.
He managed to extract himself from a burning Hummer military jeep before losing consciousness and was evacuated by helicopter.
