Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the Israel Defense Forces, the combined military forces of Israel.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the Israel Defense Forces, the combined military forces of Israel.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the Israel Defense Forces, the combined military forces of Israel.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the Israel Defense Forces, the combined military forces of Israel.
One quarter of all illegal West Bank outposts are regularly guarded by Israel Defense Forces soldiers. These 25 unauthorized outposts are guarded by a special force tasked with “community protection.” Soldiers from the force typically spend a full week at a time guarding and protecting the outpost where they are stationed. Every professional army officer…
Last week, at the glamorous Waldorf-Astoria hotel in Manhattan, the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces held its annual gala dinner. The FIDF’s national director, Maj. Gen. (res.) Yitzhak (Jerry) Gershon smiled beside wounded soldiers flown in from Israel to encourage guests to open their wallets. Gershon should be pleased: according to various reports, about…
When it comes to tourism, Israel has a lot of things going for it. The weather is almost always perfect, the food is delicious, and the people are good looking. Really, really good looking. So when the Israeli Defense Force objected to an ad featuring Israel’s most beautiful of “beautiful people” — Bar Refaeli —…
Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters took partial credit for Stevie Wonder’s decision to pull out of performing at a Friends of Israel Defense Forces event. In an interview with Electronic Intifada, a pro-Palestinian media outlet, Floyd said he was one of several dignitaries who wrote to Wonder in an effort to dissuade him from playing at…
Israel’s military plans to vacate land worth $14 billion and move most of its headquarters from the heart of Tel Aviv in a $7 billion project intended to alleviate an acute national shortage of room for housing. The Bank of Israel, concerned by surging housing prices, has called on the government, which controls about 93…
The Israeli Defense Forces criticized a public relations campaign launched by the Foreign Ministry to boost Israel’s image around the world because it starred sexy Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli, an Israeli TV station reported Sunday. The report stated that the IDF spokesman sent an official letter to the Foreign Ministry arguing that by using Refaeli,…
A LETTER FROM THE WALDORF-ASTORIA For defenders of Israel, danger is everywhere — even in New York City, even on Park Avenue, even once they’ve passed a metal detector on the second story of the Waldorf Astoria hotel. Such was the conceit of the organizers of the Friends of the IDF gala, who posted two…
An Israeli soldier has provoked an outcry by publishing a photograph that appeared to show the back of a Palestinian boy’s head seen through the crosshairs of a rifle. Israel’s army said on Tuesday it would hold an investigation into the conduct of the soldier, who posted the picture on the online photo-sharing website Instagram….
די ייִדיש־פּראָגראַם פֿונעם אַרבעטער־רינג נעמט אויך אַרײַן באַשעװיס־זינגערס „מײַן טאַטנס בית־דין־שטוב“
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