Israeli military academy

Outgoing commandant of Artillery Academy describes warfare transformations

IDF Col. Amit Guy talks the changes he has made to the IDF’s Artillery/Firepower Military Academy in an interview with the Jerusalem Post. 

IDF along the northern border between Israel and Lebanon.
Women will soon be able to serve in the Israeli Air Force's elite  669 Search and Rescue Unit as well as the Yahalom combat engineering unit.

IDF begins drafting women to elite combat units in historic first

Dozens of teenagers gathering in circles Tel Aviv's Rabin Square, in memory of those killed in the Tzafit canyon flood disaster.

Pre-military academy that led deadly field trip to close temporarily

Israeli rescue service personnel operate near the site where 10 Israeli youths were swept away by a flash flood south of the Dead Sea on April 26

Love, adventure and tragedy: Paying tribute to those lost in the flood


Diaspora Jews now have their own religious pre-military academy

For the first time, female and male cadets will study together.

CADETS POSE on the first day of studies at Mechina Olamit in Migdal Oz on Sunday.

Israeli commandos head to Cyprus for largest land-based drill

Israel and Cyprus have participated in several military drills over the past few months.

IDF commandos complete their training in central Israel

IDF’s Yahalom engineers prepare for chemical warfare threat from ISIS

Unit commander: If solution required, we can do it.

SOLDIERS OF the Engineering Corps’ elite Yahalom unit train recently for tunnel warfare.

Eisenkot may create more co-ed border security units

Regular infantry would return to conventional war training.

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

Empowering vets

Heroes to Heroes brings groups of US military veterans, suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, to meet with their Israeli counterparts.

A Heroes to Heroes delegation visits Jerusalem; the US vets say they feel “right at home” in Israel