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IDF to extend Air, Sea and Land capabilities for any proposed long-range mission, such as a pre-emptive strike on Iran

May 30, 2013

Source: JV Each year, Israel makes strides in a range of domains—from business to medicine to academic scholarship. Yet one area in which Jerusalem has grown rapidly as of late is in its military capacity. More specifically, Israel has made a series of technological acquisitions in 2013 that have greatly improved its ability to deal [...]

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Israeli, Syrian troops trade fire in Golan Heights and the strategic battle for Qusair

May 21, 2013

Source: WP Israeli military and Syrian regular army troops exchanged fire early Tuesday along the cease-fire line in the occupied Golan Heights, an area that has become a potential flash point for spillover from the civil war in Syria. After an Israel Defense Forces jeep was hit by small-arms fire from the Syrian military post, [...]

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Electronic Warfare : IDF’s teleprocessing corps C4i

May 10, 2013

Source: JP “I’m directing EW at the head. This is also a form of psychological warfare. I can engage in this and then deny it. It wrecks the functionality of the enemy,” the source added. These days, the idea of Israel engaging its enemies in a war, whether in near or distant arenas, without its [...]

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IDF launches surprise drill in northern border

April 30, 2013

Source: JP In the shadow of ongoing northern tensions, the IDF launched a large-scale surprise drill and called up 2,000 reserves to the North on Sunday evening to test its ability to quickly engage Hezbollah in Lebanon. The drill, which will involve live-fire exercises, is aimed at testing the army’s readiness and operational flexibility, a [...]

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Operating in the Shadows: IDF’s Elite Combat Units

April 14, 2013

Source: JP IN THE shadows, away from the public glare, several elite combat units operate to safeguard Israel’s security. Some gather intelligence behind enemy lines, others are sent to secure a strategic site, form Israel’s first response to hostage situations, while still others rescue soldiers in trouble. Some units receive classified missions that will never [...]

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Jihadist Control at Israel’s Northern Borders Casts Shadow of War

April 8, 2013

Source: JP Middle East power vacuums are fuel for war. A withdrawal of Assad’s army from across the Golan Heights, and fierce clashes between Hizbullah and Syrian rebels, threaten Israel on both northern fronts. Fierce clashes between Syrian rebels and Hizbullah at the Lebanese-Syria border, coupled with anarchy across from Israel’s Golan Heights, point to [...]

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Israel Defence Forces planning for confrontation with Egypt

March 26, 2013

Source: MEM Israel Today newspaper has prepared a special report on the Arab armies in the Middle East; its title is telling; “Long Arm in the Region” is a reference to the Israel Defence Forces. It is claimed that the IDF is planning for a confrontation with Egypt. The report has been prepared by the [...]

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Israel gearing up for the next war with Hezbollah

March 15, 2013

Source: JT ON a dusty field in Israel’s southern desert, the military is gearing up for the next battle against a familiar foe – Hezbollah in Lebanon. As the Syrian civil war intensifies, military planners are growing increasingly jittery that the fighting could spill over into Israel. This would potentially drag the Islamic terror group [...]

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Regional Flashpoint – Iran and Hezbollah ‘have built 50,000-strong force to help Syrian regime’

March 14, 2013

Source: LG Iran and Hezbollah have built a 50,000-strong parallel force in Syria to help prolong the life of the Damascus regime and to maintain their influence after Assad’s fall, Israel‘s military intelligence chief has claimed. Major General Aviv Kochavi said Iran intended to double the size of this Syrian “people’s army”, which he claimed was being trained by Hezbollah fighters [...]

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IDF and Syrian rebel officers meet clandestinely in Jordan

January 1, 2013

Source: Debka Israeli officials have been holding talks in Jordan with Syrian opposition officials “in advance of a possible Israeli-U.S. operation in Syria to protect the Golan Heights,” Western intelligence sources reported Tuesday, Jan. 1. There was no further information about this operation or how rebel commanders were involved in military plans “to protect the [...]

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Tamoun raid hints as to IDF covert unit’s ops

January 1, 2013

Source: Ynet The IDF said Tuesday that the raid in the West Bank village of Tamoun, south of Jenin, was successful, despite the riots that raged during and after the operation. Earlier, the military said that the troops entered the village in search of two Palestinian militants. What began as a covert operation by the [...]

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IDF ground forces undergo communications revolution

December 17, 2012

Source: JPost A communications system is being introduced into the IDF’s ground forces that is set to revolutionize the way the army engages the enemy and interacts with its units on the battlefield. The system, called Digital Ground Army (DGA), generates a map, updated in real time, of all forces – friendly and hostile – in a [...]

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IDF preparing units for next war: Lebanon and West Bank

December 13, 2012

Source: Jerusalem Post The IDF Spokesman’s Office is preparing for the next war, in which the swiftness of its response will be key, Brig.-Gen. Yoav Mordechai, the IDF Spokesman, says. Speaking to the Globes Business Conference in Tel Aviv earlier this week, Mordechai said his unit was in the midst of preparing for a future [...]

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US Army Corps of Engineers to build mysterious ‘Site 911′ in Israel

November 29, 2012

Source: Independent The US Army Corps of Engineers plans to supervise construction of a five-story underground facility for an Israel Defense Forces complex, oddly named “Site 911,” at an Israeli Air Force base near Tel Aviv. Expected to take more than two years to build, at a cost of up to $100 million, the facility [...]

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Israel special forces on the ground in Gaza seeking out hidden rocket sites

November 18, 2012

Source: Times of Israel Israeli special forces are deployed in Gaza searching for hidden rockets and weapons, the Sunday Times reported on Sunday, amid fears that a desperate Hamas might affix chemical weapons to its remaining long-range Fajr-5 missiles. According to the report in the London weekly, which was not attributed to any source, the [...]

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IAF Assassinates Hamas Terror Wing Commander; Hamas: ‘This is Open War’

November 14, 2012

Source: Arutz Sheva The IAF fired a missile at a car in Gaza Wednesday, killing the commander of Hamas’s “military” terror wing, Ahmed Jaabari. Israel’s TV Channel 2 says his son was also killed. There are reports that Raed al-Atar, Commander of Hamas’s southern division, has also been killed. Hamas responded by saying that it [...]

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Analysis: From assassinations to ground offensives

November 12, 2012

Source: Jerusalem Post The IDF probably has a broad range of options to choose from if it wishes to escalate its response to ongoing Palestinian rocket fire on southern Israel. As of now, the military has limited its response to air strikes on rocket-launching cells after they have been identified on the ground and are [...]

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Israel launches air raids Gaza Strip amid hints of ground invasion

November 11, 2012

Source: Telegraph The raids came as Benjamin Netanyahu indicated Israel may launch a ground invasion into Gaza, after a weekend of escalating cross border violence. The overnight air raids targeted a smuggling tunnel and an arms cache in the northern Gaza Strip as well as a rocket launch site in the area, a military spokesman [...]

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Israel and Syria: a nightmare scenario

November 6, 2012

Source: Times of Israel “This is a Syrian matter which may turn into an Israeli matter.” So noted IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz near the site where three of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s tanks had penetrated the U.N.-designated demilitarized zone on the Golan Heights one day prior. Gantz’s prophecy wasn’t bluster, but rather a [...]

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Simulation: First 48 hours after a strike on Iran

November 3, 2012

Source: Jerusalem Post The Institute for National Security Studies held a war game recently in which players representing regional actors simulated the first 48 hours after an IDF strike on the Islamic Republic. The simulation was based on the scenario of a unilateral Israeli strike without US participation, after midnight on November 9. The Tel [...]

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Israel invests millions in drive for elite ‘cyber warriors’: Unit 8200

November 3, 2012

Source: Telegraph The Jewish state is facing a dire shortage of “cyber-combat troops” and is scouring the Jewish Diaspora for exceptional, teenage computer minds to recruit to its cyber unit Intelligence Corps Unit 8200, a leading Israeli newspaper reported on Thursday. “It has become clear that the demand for soldiers in this field is growing, [...]

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Israel used Sudan bombing as ‘dry run’ for attack on Iran

October 29, 2012

Source: AP/Times of Israel An Israel airstrike was behind the explosion last Wednesday at a Sudanese weapons factory, and that attack was a “dry run for a forthcoming attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities,” according to a weekend report in the Sunday Times of London, which also implied the seeds of the attack were planted in [...]

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Sudan: a front for Israel’s proxy war on Sinai jihadis?

October 25, 2012

Source: Reuters If Israel bombed a Sudanese munitions factory, as Khartoum alleges, the raid was part of its widening proxy war against Islamist militants in neighbouring Egypt which the Jewish state is reluctant to confront directly. A huge explosion ripped through the factory near the Sudanese capital Khartoum on Tuesday, killing two people, with Sudan [...]

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Senior IDF Source: Expect ‘Cast Lead 2′

October 9, 2012

Source: Arutz Sheva After Hamas and Islamic Jihad co-signed a statement taking responsibility for the 55-rocket barrage fired into southern Israel over the Simchat Torah holiday, a senior IDF source said Israel has no choice but to launch a wide-scale military operation against Gaza. The source told Maariv/NRG that the operation would include a large-scale [...]

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Golan Heights: IDF Launches Surprise Drill as Tensions Grow over Iran, Syria and al-Qaida

September 19, 2012

Source: IBT The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) have launched surprise military exercises on the Golan Heights, on the border with Lebanon and Syria, as tensions continue to grow in the region. The exercise was launched without warning by IDF Chief of Staff Lt Gen Benny Gantz to test the army’s readiness as prime minister Benjamin [...]

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IDF Chief of Staff: the next war with Lebanon will knock the country back “by decades.”

September 6, 2012

Source: Arutz Sheva IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz voiced hope in an interview published Thursday that Iranian leaders will decide to scrap their nuclear arms program of their own accord. He also said that the next war with Lebanon will knock the country back “by decades.” “We are more prepared than in [...]

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‘We [IDF] could destroy parts of Lebanon to stop rockets’

August 13, 2012

Source: JPOST Israel may need to destroy parts of Lebanon and Gaza if Hezbollah and Hamas rain missiles upon the country in response to an Israeli attack on Iran, former Mossad head Danny Yatom said Monday. Yatom, in an interview on Israel Radio, warned against presenting an apocalyptic picture of how Iran will respond if [...]

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Israel: Prepare for a Multi-Front War

August 9, 2012

Source: Arutz Sheva DF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz warned on Thursday that despite the IDF and the Shin Bet’s ability to foil this week’s terror attacknear the border with Egypt, there are no guarantees that Israel would have similar intelligence that will allow it to thwart similar attacks in the future. Speaking during a [...]

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Israeli strike on Iran may be no more than a couple of months away

August 5, 2012

In Israeli military strike on Iran may be just weeks or at most a couple of months away, a former Israeli intelligence chief said Friday, while stressing that he personally did not think the time was right for an Israeli attack. “It seems to me,” said Aharon Zeevi Farkash, former head of Military Intelligence in [...]

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