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Between 1948 and 1997, 20,093 [3] Israeli soldiers were killed in combat, 75,000 Israelis were wounded, and nearly 100,000 [4] Israelis were considered disabled army veterans. On the other hand, in 2010 Yom Hazikaron, Israel honored the memory of 22,684 Israeli soldiers and pre-Israeli Palestinian Jews killed since 1860 in the line of duty for ...
One of the brigades, the 7th Armored Brigade (Hebrew: חטיבה שבע, Hativa Sheva) was the main force in the Battles of Latrun. Israel army Sherman Tank during Operation Horev, December 1948. Facing them were the forces of Egypt's army, which in 1948 was able to field a maximum of around 40,000 men.
The Entebbe raid or Operation Entebbe, officially codenamed Operation Thunderbolt (retroactively codenamed Operation Yonatan), was a 1976 Israeli counter-terrorist mission in Uganda. It was launched in response to the hijacking of an international civilian passenger flight (an Airbus A300) operated by Air France between the cities of Tel Aviv ...
In an effort to better understand what exactly happened, NBC News has geolocated the three damaged aid vehicles abandoned along a 1.55-mile stretch of coastal highway in Gaza, using images posted ...
Some of the military equipment developed locally have been: Small arms. Dror light machine gun. IWI Negev light machine gun. Uzi submachine gun. Uzi machine pistol. Desert Eagle semi-automatic pistol. Jericho 941 semi-automatic pistol. BUL M-5 semi-automatic pistol.
Eitan (Hebrew for "steadfast", "firm" or "strong") is an armoured fighting vehicle (AFV) developed by the Merkava and Armoured Vehicles Directorate in the IMOD to replace the ageing M113 armoured personnel carrier in use by the Israel Defense Forces. [ 7 ] Its armored personnel carrier (APC) variant lacks the Iron Fist APS, due to the fact ...
Paratroopers at the Western Wall is an iconic photograph taken on 7 June 1967, by David Rubinger. Shot from a low angle, the photograph depicts three Israeli paratroopers framed against the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem, shortly after its capture by Israeli forces in the Six-Day War. From left to right, the Israeli soldiers ...
Israel launched a rare airstrike that killed a senior Hezbollah military official in a densely populated southern Beirut neighborhood on Friday. It was the deadliest such strike on Lebanon’s ...