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WATCH: IDF arrests two terrorists, raids 100 sites in Duvdevan West Bank counterterror operation

The military said that both terrorists were suspected by the Shin Bet of planning and promoting terrorist plots to harm the citizens of the State of Israel and the IDF.

IDF troops operate in the West Bank, August 17, 2026.
Israeli soldier Elor Azaria, who was caught on video shooting a wounded Palestinian assailant in the head as he lay on the ground, sits during a hearing at a military appeals court in Tel Aviv during which he was charged with manslaughter on April 18, 2016.

Israel Katz's populist push to pardon Elor Azaria puts Israel at serious risk - comment

US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee speaks during the Jerusalem Summit, a conference on antisemitism and Christian support for Israel, at the Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in Jerusalem, June 11, 2026.

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

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


What makes US-Israel defense ties so 'rock solid'?

“The ties between our armies are very deep and very strong, even under Obama.”

From Left to Right: IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot, US Defense Secretary General James Mattis and Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman

IDF soldier stabbed outside West Bank settlement

A security guard saw a Palestinian woman heading toward the community’s gate and yelled at her to stand back, according to an Israeli police spokeswoman.

Scene of Mevo Dotan stabbing attack

Final appeals hearing for ‘Hebron shooter’ turns rowdy

A panel of five judges of the IDF Appeals Court, with chief judge Maj.-Gen. Doron Filis presiding, questioned Azaria’s defense team about holes in their arguments to overturn the verdict.

Le soldat Elor Azaria

American, Israeli air forces complete two-week long drill

The drill, which has been happening for several years usually happens once a year, though due to different considerations it occurs more than once.

IDF and US Air-force joint drill

Breaking the (German) Silence

The Jerusalem Post

Former Hugo Boss model enlists in the IDF

31-year-old James Hirschfield traded in designer clothes for a new military uniform.

From billboards to basic training, model James Hirshfield enlists in the IDF

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Sufa in Ethiopia

Sufa in Ethiopia

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.