Thousands protest in Jerusalem against haredi draft

Published on May 17, 2013

Thousands of haredi Orthodox Israelis protested in Jerusalem against plans to enlist haredi men into the military.

Barak orders haredi Orthodox conscription

Published on August 1, 2012

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak ordered the Israeli Defense Forces to draft haredi Orthodox men as it does other Jewish Israelis.

Hitting activists is bad, but being unprofessional is worse

By Shmuel Rosner
Published on April 16, 2012

Israel Police on high alert ahead of Yom Kippur

Published on October 7, 2011

Israel Police have been holding talks with Israeli Arab representatives in bid to diffuse tensions ahead of Yom Kippur, after the burning of an Upper-Galilee mosque earlier this week. Police hope that calm will be restored in time for Yom Kippur on Saturday.

Israeli army trains settlers to confront protests

Published on August 30, 2011

Israel's military has been training Jewish settler security units to cope with any eruption of Palestinian protests alongside a planned bid for statehood at the United Nations next month, settler and military officials said on Tuesday.

In helping Palestinians, IDF paramedics defy stereotypes

Published on May 26, 2011

Yana Kisluk tosses her long ponytail over one shoulder and adjusts her M-16 over the other.

Israel intercepts Jewish boat headed for Gaza

Published on September 28, 2010

Israeli commandos peacefully intercepted a boat carrying Jewish activists who hoped to breach Israel’s embargo of the Gaza Strip.

Israeli soldiers allegedly looted flotilla ships

Published on August 19, 2010

An Israeli officer and soldier are suspected of selling goods they confiscated from the Gaza flotilla after the May raid.

Soldier passed info to Hezbollah, Israeli army says

Published on June 30, 2010

An Israeli career soldier is suspected of passing sensitive military information to Hezbollah.

The living dream

By Robert David Jaffee
Published on January 24, 2008

I signed up for Sar-El, an international program affiliated with the U.S.-based group, Volunteers for Israel, through which participants from all over the world travel to Israel to help out the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) for up to three weeks.

Debate Rages on Gaza Pullout, Army

By Leslie Susser
Published on January 6, 2005

As the scheduled start of Israel's Gaza withdrawal approaches, settler leaders are raising the specter of mass refusal by religious soldiers to carry out orders, and are warning of disastrous consequences for the Israeli army and society as a whole.

But high-ranking Israel Defense Forces (IDF) officers said settler leaders are exaggerating in an attempt to scare the government and to encourage soldiers to refuse to evacuate settlers from their homes.

In 2003, We Are STRONG

By Michael Berenbaum
Published on December 4, 2003

Reichminister Joseph Goebbels delivers a speech to a crowd in Berlin urging Germans to boycott Jewish-owned businesses. He defends the boycott as a legitimate response to the anti-German "atrocity propaganda" being spread abroad by "international Jewry." April 1, 1933.

Israeli Savage

By Dan Katzir
Published on August 28, 2003

"Did you ever kill anyone?" Lisa asks me.

Our first date is painfully coming to an end, and after two hours of chemistry-less conversation, Lisa seems as reserved as she did the moment she walked into the restaurant. Like many Jewish girls I've met in this city, Lisa is wearing an expression that says, "I'm bored. Why can't you be as cool as my dad?"

That is until she brings up my past. Then her cold, beautiful eyes finally wake up.

World Briefs

By JTA Staff
Published on November 7, 2002

The Way of No Way

By Andrea Adelson
Published on August 1, 2002

Drawn in part by the recent movie, "Enough," in which actress Jennifer Lopez uses Krav Maga to even the score against an abusive husband, a long-established Orange County class in self-defense is seeing a jump in popularity.