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IDF issues new security guidelines for soldiers traveling abroad after deadly Bondi shooting

The IDF Operations Directorate issued a statement emphasizing its security recommendations for soldiers abroad, while it also pointed out the recent increase in antisemitic attacks.

Members of the forensic team stand near the scene of a shooting during a Jewish holiday celebration at Bondi Beach, in Sydney, Australia, December 15, 2025.
Israeli journalist Tal Lev Ram attends a conference on the Israeli army station "Galei Tzahal", in Tel Aviv on September 30, 2025.

Army Radio commander to fight Katz's closure of IDF station before High Court

IDF intercepts fifth Houthi missile from Yemen in last week

 Hamas terrorists seen in Gaza City, February 28, 2025

Hamas’s refusal to compromise preceded IDF strikes, sources say


Women soldiers and Jewish law

Jews in the military, both male and female, seem to feel more Jewish afterwards, not less.

Female soldiers in an IDF artillery unit distribute weapons to their unit.

Civil rights NGO urges indictment of IDF colonel who killed rock-thrower

A video of the shooting distributed at the time by B’Tselem went viral and brought about calls for Shomer’s prosecution.

Smashed windshield of IDF vehicle

IDF chief: Hamas tunnels are not a strategic or existential threat

Eisenkot addresses the Knesset Control Committee, defending the IDF against criticism of 2014's Operation Protective Edge.

A gunman from the Izz ad-Din al- Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, photographed inside an underground tunnel in Gaza, in 2014.

Middle Israel: War of the sexes haunts IDF

Nationalist rabbis’ call to revolt against women’s combat postings will crash at takeoff, as observant women are voting by the feet, enlisting in ever-increasing numbers.

Women in the IDF

Event to boost LGBT, female combat troops

The project, headed by Omer Nahmany, aims to promote and assist female and LGBT recruits toward meaningful experiences before, during and after their service.

A female soldier has mud applied to her face for camouflage in this photo from an IDF Instructors course in 2006.

Israeli ministers call for Elor Azaria to be pardoned

"The security of Israel's citizens necessitates an immediate pardon for Elor Azaria," Bennett says.

Naftali Bennett

Israeli Navy captain: ‘Hamas will never be able to surprise us’

‘Post’ tags along for joint navy and air force drill simulating medical evacuation of wounded.

A YASUR helicopter hovers over a Super Dvora patrol boat during a joint navy-air force drill on Wednesday

Lone soldiers benefit from bureaucratic one-stop shop on ‘Errands Day’

NBN and FIDF team up to cut through red tape for young volunteers.

Ron Volkmar, a lone soldier in the IDF.

IDF completes large-scale Gaza drill simulating Hamas infiltration

The exercise simulated among other things, a massive infiltration by Hamas commando units into communities in southern Israel.

IDF completes large-scale Gaza drill simulating Hamas infiltration by land, sea, and air.

Elor Azaria’s defense team says IDF broke law by urging family to drop appeal

Army denies assertion, says meeting was to inquire if family required aid.

THE FATHER of convicted Sgt. Elor Azaria (center) prays behind him in a military court during a remand hearing for his case last March