The forgotten tradition making a comeback among IDF soldiers
Cut off from their families during combat in Gaza, Israeli soldiers rediscovered a simple, deeply personal way to stay connected with loved ones back home.
Cut off from their families during combat in Gaza, Israeli soldiers rediscovered a simple, deeply personal way to stay connected with loved ones back home.
Faster treatment, advanced medical techniques, and battlefield innovations are helping the IDF save more wounded soldiers’ lives.
Israel has approved a US team’s entry into southern Gaza to identify potential locations for Hamas to surrender its weapons, a key step in President Donald Trump’s plan to demilitarize the Strip.
Israel’s leading defense companies have developed three remarkable robotic vessels that can patrol dangerous waters, hunt underwater threats, and respond rapidly to maritime dangers without putting sailors directly in harm’s way.
Defense Minister Israel Katz has revealed that the IDF is preparing for a possible confrontation with Palestinian Authority security forces, amid fears that an October 7-style attack could erupt in Judea and Samaria.
Israel’s southern air bases face a growing security challenge from an unusual combination of geography, illegal weapons, drones and potential hostile intelligence activity in the communities surrounding the installations.
As the nation marks three years since the catastrophic massacre, the Israeli military has quintupled its immediate-readiness forces and initiated sweeping security sweeps to counter the explicit threat of highly organized, multi-front soldier abductions.
Israel has dismantled a major Hamas financial network spanning Gaza and Turkey.
The seizure of the internal security chief of Hamas provided IDF intel that led to elimination of three senior commanders.
The IDF targeted Ali al-Amoudi, a senior Hamas leader and Yahya Sinwar’s successor, in a precision airstrike in Gaza City.
Saudi military spending is approximately $83 billion annually.
The networks that pushed the tank fabrication report have a long history of publishing false stories regarding Israeli military activities.
Israel’s unique ability to learn, adapt and rapidly turn battlefield experience into new procedures is a characteristic increasingly studied by other armies preparing for their own wars.
By coordinating aerial, ground and maritime systems, the new branch will standardize procurement, training, doctrine and deployment, allowing autonomous platforms to operate alongside regular forces.
IDF rabbis routinely travel to active combat zones, enduring rugged terrain and security risks to blow the shofar for troops on the front lines.
Israeli security officials described al‑Arabid as an “intelligence gold mine,” noting that his interrogation could reveal details about Hamas’s internal networks, tunnel systems, and hostage‑handling procedures.
Qatar’s strategy is part of a broader campaign to expand its regional influence through Islamization, media leverage via Al Jazeera, and strategic alliances with Islamist movements.
The high-stakes mission was executed deep inside the Gaza Strip through a coordinated joint effort between the special forces of Israel’s domestic security agency, Shin Bet, and the IDF.
Despite the American opposition the Israeli campaign went ahead and succeeded far beyond expectations – freeing all 250 hostages, destroying all of the Hamas leadership (including Sinwar) and the IDF takeover of over 65% of the Gaza strip.
Smuggling operations on the eastern border have skyrocketed, with the IDF recording 241 successful drug smuggling runs in a single year, alongside an alarming spike in advanced drone-based weapons smuggling.
