First reserve battalion in IDF’s Haredi Hasmonean Brigade declared operational
The Shimon Battalion completed its first battalion-level exercise in the Golan Heights as the IDF works to expand recruitment among ultra-Orthodox men
The Shimon Battalion completed its first battalion-level exercise in the Golan Heights as the IDF works to expand recruitment among ultra-Orthodox men
The IDF’s first ultra-Orthodox unit, the Hasmonean Brigade, has entered southern Lebanon and carried out operations against Hezbollah after training and testing in Gaza and Judea and Samaria.
The venue is tied to an empire that crushed Judea, destroyed the Second Temple, and sent the Jewish people into millennia of exile.
