WATCH: What Reef left behind – A fallen soldier’s story
Reef Harush fell in 2024, leaving behind a legacy of kindness and selflessness that continues to inspire his family and friends as they honor his memory.
Reef Harush fell in 2024, leaving behind a legacy of kindness and selflessness that continues to inspire his family and friends as they honor his memory.
A year after a covert Shayetet 13 raid deep in northern Lebanon, the IDF has revealed new details showing how the abduction of a Hezbollah-linked ship captain helped expose the group’s secret maritime terror program.
Following the lessons of October 7, Israel has overhauled training for its community rapid-response teams, placing civilian defenders through intensive drills led by elite IDF units.
Thousands of families across Israel navigate daily life with a significant piece missing, as many fathers are called up for reserve duties, making home life challenging and emotionally difficult.
In recent weeks, the IDF conducted operations in the Yellow Line area of eastern Rafah, dismantling Hamas terror infrastructure and seizing weapons and surveillance equipment.
After losing his leg in a devastating explosion during combat in Gaza, Yoav Tzivoni shares a powerful story of survival, faith, stoic resilience, and the healing strength of community that transformed tragedy into hope.
In a joint IDF–Shin Bet strike on Saturday, Israeli forces eliminated Ra’ad Sa’ad, Hamas’s head of weapons production and a central architect of the October 7 massacre, dealing a severe blow to the group’s ability to rebuild and rearm.
Since early October, the IDF has struck around 40 Hezbollah terrorists across 30 locations in southern Lebanon—targeting those rebuilding terrorist infrastructure after more than 1,900 ceasefire violations—and vows to continue neutralizing every threat to Israel.
In Beit Hanoun, the IDF’s elite Yahalom engineering unit demolished a Hamas tunnel stretching roughly a kilometer, removing a significant piece of the terror group’s underground infrastructure.
Through Sari Dov’s ‘House of Heroes,’ wounded Israeli soldiers rebuild their bodies, confidence, and sense of mission as they transition from hospital beds back to fighters in spirit.
After months of intelligence work, the Shin Bet, IDF, and Israel Police uncovered a Tulkarm-based terrorist network stockpiling rockets and explosives for attacks on Israeli forces.
Israel has begun construction on the first 80 kilometers of a NIS 5.5 billion, 425-kilometer upgrade to its Jordanian border fence, with the Defense Ministry and IDF planning the next sections to strengthen the country’s eastern defenses.
Israeli forces in southern Lebanon demolished an old Hezbollah attack shaft and a weapons depot, uncovering mortar rounds inside and eliminating any chance the terror group could use the sites in future attacks.
Over two weeks, Israeli forces carried out a counterterrorism sweep in northern Samaria, killing six terrorists, arresting dozens, and confiscating weapons and terror funds.
Israeli forces eliminated the East Rafah Battalion commander, his deputy, and additional Hamas terrorists after they emerged from Rafah’s underground network—delivering a sharp blow to the group’s remaining command structure.
While securing the Yellow Line in northern Gaza under the ceasefire terms, Carmeli Brigade forces uncovered five rocket launchers primed to fire at Israel and are pressing on with efforts to neutralize nearby threats.
Adding another layer to Israel’s already formidable air-defense network, the IDF is preparing to deploy the Iron Beam — a laser-based system that delivers interceptions at a fraction of the cost of Iron Dome and other missile defenses.
IDF forces demolished the homes of two terrorists—Abed al-Karim Tsanobar, responsible for a failed February 2025 bus bombing and Ayman Ghanem, who carried out a deadly shooting at Mehola Junction.
An Israeli passerby alerted security forces to a suspicious individual, and when two soldiers began questioning him, he pulled out a knife and lightly wounded them.
Undercover Israeli special forces carried out a daring covert raid in the heart of Shechem, arresting a terrorist suspected of plotting IED attacks against Israeli soldiers.
