Helicopter

WATCH: IDF, Soroka, Joseftal hospitals carry out first-ever ECMO patient evacuation

In a first-of-its-kind operation, the Israel Air Force and medical teams from Soroka and Joseftal hospitals airlifted a young woman connected to an ECMO life-support system from Eilat to Beersheba.

|ByJAMES GENN
A military helicopter and medical staff from Soroka and Joseftal hospitals evacuate a patient connected to an ECMO machine, February 14, 2026.
White pickup trucks spotted on the Egyptian side of the Israel-Egypt border, February 11, 2026.

IDF deploys forces against trucks seen along Egyptian border for second time in 24 hours - report

In an afternoon statement, the Eshkol Regional Council noted that several gatherings of this type along the Egyptian side of the border have been reported in recent days.

|ByMIRIAM SELA-EITAM
THE NEW "Pereh" helicopter, expected to replace the IDF's "Yas'ur" helicopters.

Defense Ministry, Elbit sign $130 million deal to outfit helicopters with Israeli tech

These advanced Elbit technologies will include command and control, avionics, electronic warfare systems, and the advanced anti-missile DIRCM system.

|ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
Members of the US Army perform maintenance on a Boeing AH-64 Apache attack helicopter, scheduled to be used in the US Army's 250th Birthday Celebration and Parade, following landing on the National Mall in Washington, DC, US, June 11, 2025.

US approves $3.8 billion sale of advanced Apache helicopters to Israel

The package Israel requested included 30 AH-64E helicopters and 70 engines, along with advanced night-vision and targeting systems, radar, and support equipment.

|ByAMIR BOHBOT

Lights & Lifesavers: Yoni Rozenfeld overcame fear, rode his helicopter to evacuate the wounded

"On October 7, we were game-changers," Rozenfeld said. "Without United Hatzalah, hundreds more would have died.”

DECEMBER 9, 2023ByALAN ROSENBAUM
Yoni Rozenfeld, United Hatzalah district coordinator for Jerusalem and a helicopter paramedic

US increases helicopter raids in Syria, targeting ISIS terrorists

This is the latest helicopter raid by US forces in Syria and appears to be part of an increase of these types of operations.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
A U.S. UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter flies over the Syrian landscape, March 12, 2018.

Israeli citizen killed in New Jersey helicopter crash

Local news outlets confirmed the time and location of the crash in South Brunswick, New Jersey.

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023ByMAYA ZANGER-NADIS
Robinson R22 helicopter.

Three US Marines die in 'tragic' Australia helicopter crash

A v-22 Osprey helicopter with about 23 US Marines on board had crashed off the coast of Darwin.

AUGUST 27, 2023ByREUTERS
A V-22 Osprey aircraft

Firefighters fall into 8 m. pit during rescue mission, two killed

A firefighter was killed and another was critically injured during unsuccessful attempts to save the life of a man who fell into the pit on Sunday.

AUGUST 13, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Police and rescue personnel at the scene where three people were injured when they fell into an 8-m deep pit in the ground in Deir el-Asad, Northern Israel on August 13, 2023

Two firefighting helicopters collide in California, killing three

The first helicopter landed safely after the collision but the second one crashed, killing all three people who were on board.

AUGUST 7, 2023ByREUTERS
A helicopter is seen during a fire in Perris, California, US, July 15, 2023

Vladimir Putin gifts Russian helicopter to Zimbabwean president

"Victims of sanctions must cooperate," Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa said. "And this is the cooperation we are seeing."

JULY 28, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Vladimir Putin and Emmerson Mnangagwa.

United Hatzalah flies cancer patients in Israel's periphery for treatment

The pilot project will continue with another flight for a young cancer patient from Israel’s southern Negev region in the coming weeks.

JULY 16, 2023ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
A young cancer patient named Raaya from the periphery is arriving at a hospital for treatment after being flown there by a United Hatzalah helicopter.

First aircraft on another world reestablishes contact with earth

The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter arrived on the red planet together with the Mars Perseverance rover, which was launched in July 2020.

JULY 1, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter was captured by the Perseverance rover’s Mastcam-Z on April 16, not long after the rotorcraft’s 50th flight. The helicopter would soon fall silent for 63 days due hilly terrain that interrupted communications between the rover and aircraft.

7 IDF soldiers wounded in Jenin ambush of armored vehicle

Heavy fighting between IDF soldiers and Palestinian gunmen left at least three Palestinians dead and 28 injured.

JUNE 19, 2023ByYONAH JEREMY BOB, JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Smoke billows from the aftermath of the detonation of a Palestinian explosive charge on an Israeli armoured vehicle during an Israeli army raid in Jenin in the West Bank on June 19, 2023.