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As US-Iran peace prospects crumble, return to heavy fighting up to Trump, CENTCOM, Huckabee says

“I wouldn’t be overconfident if I were the Iranians that they will be able to make this work well for them,” Huckabee said.

US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee at the My Tree in Israel event in Moshav HaYogev. July 9, 2026.
An Israeli soldier guard as young men gathered during a demonstration by Ultra-Orthodox Jews against Israel's military draft on June 17, 2026 outside the Beit Lid military base in Kfar Yona, Israel. The conscription of young ultra-Orthodox men into the military, from which they were long exempt.

Likud MK Kallner opposes criminal arrests for haredi draft evaders, backs economic sanctions

IDF Military Drone Unit train with their drones near the Syrian border, northern Golan Heights.

Dozens of drones entered Gaza Strip over recent months, fears Hamas could use in attack - report

Maj.-Gen. Aviad Dagan.

IDF to develop AI battlefield operations with newest tech division, military announces


IDF to increase mandatory service, reserve duty amid war in Gaza

Besides the extension of service time, reservists will also need to serve 40 days per year instead of 25 days per year.

 IDF to increase mandatory service, reserve duty amid war in Gaza

Communications Ministry funds network reception for bomb shelters

The transmitters provide radio reception coverage from Metulla to Beersheba, extending into protected areas and shelters.

 Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi attends digital journalism Conference at the Reichman University in Herzliya, January 9, 2023.

In Israel, it's not January 1st, it's October 86th - comment

The best we can do is raise a toast in the hope that October 86th will soon make way for a date in January or February to be determined.

 People hold photographs of Israelis held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, as they attend a protest calling for the government to find a solution to have the hostages released, outside the Hakirya Base (Military Defense Headquarters) in Tel Aviv, December 18, 2023

IDF reservists say they're still under-equipped as 50,000 vests arrive

Amid concerns of equipment shortage, the IDF intends to distribute tens of thousands of much-needed vests, helmets, and other defensive items in the coming days.

 Israeli soldiers walk past Israeli tanks near Israel's border with the Gaza Strip, in southern Israel October 15, 2023.

Gaza rescue workers scared and exhausted under Israel's air strikes

Rescue services were struggling to reach new bomb sites quickly. Rescue worker Ibraham Hamdan said he was attending about 10 calls a day.

 Palestinian rescue worker Ibrahim Hamdan and his colleague wait for an emergency call, amid fear and exhaustion under Israeli air strikes, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip October 12, 2023.

IDF: Hamas plan was to conquer, hold Gaza corridor

Equipment, logistical items, and other data show that the terrorists expected to stay in the area and came prepared for such an operation.

 IDF armored and infantry reserve units in military training in Golan Heights before heading South to the Gaza Strip, northern Golan Heights on October 8, 2023

IDF to penalize striking reservists, disregard public campaign

The IDF’s view is that it wants to keep itself out of politics and does not want to get involved in responding to public letter campaigns.

 Israeli soldiers and rescue forces seen at Mount Harif military base in the southern Negev desert, close to the border with Egypt, on June 3, 2023

Israeli foundation opens first-of-its-kind 'Big Brother' house for IDF lone soldiers

The housing is a collaboration between "Big Brother for Lone Soldiers" and the Israeli hotel chains Dan and Isrotel. The program is intended to offer a solution to the the gap lone soldiers face.

A new housing program for lone soldiers is a collaboration between "Big Brother for Lone Soldiers" and the hotel chain Dan and Isrotel

Young Gaza man mourns fiancee killed in Israeli strikes

His fiancee, Dania Adas,19, and her sister Iman, 16, were both killed when Israeli jets hit the building next door where an alleged senior Islamic Jihad leader Khalil Al-Bahtini lived.

Palestinian man Mohammad Saed, whose fiancee Dania Adas was killed in a nearby Israeli strike that damaged her family's house, is consoled, inside her house in Gaza City May 10, 2023.

Security forces thwart illegal antiquity trade in West Bank

About 270 ancient artifacts were found in the search, including gold, silver and bronze coins from different periods.

  Items recovered from a raid in the West Bank in March 2023.