Palestinian Terrorist Attempts To Breach IDF Base With Tractor
Terror and the pit are come upon us, desolation and destruction. Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water, for the breach of the daughter of my people. (Lamentations 3:47-48) The IDF shot and killed a Palestinian man who had forced his way on to an army base north of Jerusalem with a tractor on […]
Netanyahu Makes Case For Preemptive Strike On Iran
And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it. (Deuteronomy 20:12) At a commemoration for the 40th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War at the Knesset on Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave a fairly transparent speech that would appear to be a […]
Former Lone Soldiers Give Advice to their “Successors”
“… thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself: I am the LORD.” (Leviticus 19:18) The US-based Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) held a three-day gathering for lone soldiers last week at Dror Beach, south of Haifa. The term “lone soldier” refers to an Israeli soldier whose parents do not live in the country, […]
IDF Shuts Down Terrorist Tunnel From Gaza to Israeli Kibbutz
…So shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee. (Deuteronomy 13:6) Israeli Security Forces have unearthed and neutralized a tunnel leading from Abbasan al-Saghira in the Gaza Strip to Kibbutz Ein Hashlosha in Israel, the IDF announced on Sunday. The army believes the tunnels was going to be used to carry out […]
Palestinians Murder Israeli Man In Jordan Valley In Yet Another Suspected Terror Attack
…And though in a land of peace thou art secure, yet how wilt thou do in the thickets of the Jordan? (Jeremiah 12:5) A retired IDF colonel was beaten to death with crowbars and axes in his home in the Jordan Valley late Thursday night, according to The Times of Israel. The victim’s girlfriend, who […]
Netanyahu Refuses to Alter Prisoner Release Schedule
For Rabbi Tuly’s Shabbat Shalom blog CLICK HERE “He shall judge between the nations, and shall decide disputes for many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.” (Isaiah 2:4) Netanyahu has turned down […]
Preparing Israel for Future Dangers
“For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle…” (Zechariah 14:2) IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz presented his predictions regarding future potential dangers at the Israel Towards 2020 Conference at Bar-Ilan University, which began on Sunday. Although not based on specific intelligence information, he feels it is “not so unimaginable” to prepare […]
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This short clip was produced by the LIBI FUND – the fund for strengthening Israel’s defense. LIBI cares for the education, medical and social needs of the IDF soldiers.
Trust in God
Watch this music video featuring the melody of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach accompanied by pictures of soldiers in the IDF.
IDF Women Drivers
During military operations, when humvees, tanks, or armored vehicles are in service, it is often assumed that the drivers are men. However, in Israel, the IDF trains women to do the job as well. Not only do these women ride humvees, they train to steer these enormous military vehicles in the battlefield.