IDF Soldiers

Knesset members urge Yuli Edelstein to lead discussion on IDF suicides, mental health crisis

Nine members of the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee sent a letter calling for an immediate discussion on what they described as a sharp and troubling rise in suicides within the IDF.

An IDF soldier sits on a beach in Tel Aviv
 IDF soldiers are seen working as part of the Israeli military's Gaza battlefield intelligence collection unit.

IDF to launch mandatory Islamic studies and Arabic training for all intelligence soldiers

 U.S. President Donald Trump gestures as he speaks with the media after attending the FIFA Club World Cup final upon his arrival at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, U.S, July 13, 2025.

Trump in no rush to talk with Iran, US sets August deadline for Iran nuclear deal

 IDF soldiers operate in the Gaza Strip, July 12, 2025.

IDF targets Hamas, PIJ explosives, observation posts in bid to stop ambushes on troops


Iranian advisor posts video depicting nuking Israel, Netanyahu speaks to Fox News on Gaza, Iran

Hamas sabotaging hostage deal talks • Netanyahu summons Smotrich, Ben-Gvir to discuss Gaza negotiations • Trump supports Iran strikes if nuke program continues

 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over a backdrop of Israeli protesters.

Israel at War day 644: What's happening in Gaza, West Bank?

IDF maps homes of Gush Etzion terrorists for demolition • Saudi-France conference on two-State solution to happen at end of July

 IDF soldiers are seen operating in Nablus, in the West Bank, July 3, 2025

Haredi soldiers graduate from IDF's Hashmonaim Brigade, ready for combat training

The Hashmonaim brigade is unique because its members are full-time haredim both inside and outside the army, receiving special measures like at least an hour of daily Talmud study.

 The IDF's Hasmonean Brigade badge, for ultra-Orthodox (haredi) Jews, is seen as soldiers operate in the Gaza Strip on June 26, 2025

In 'direct message' to Khamenei, Katz warns Iran of Israel's 'destructive power'

The defense minister said that there is no place in Iran for Islamic Regime officials who harm Israel to hide.

A mock skull representing Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is held up by a person during a protest against the Iranian government, outside the Federal Building in Los Angeles, California, US, June 23, 2025.

Moved 'like a sack of potatoes': Mothers of soldiers slam hospitals for medical neglect

During the meeting, Inbal, the mother of Ido Nehamad, who was shot by a sniper a year and a half ago and remains unconscious, criticized the systems responsible for her son's care.

 An Israeli soldier wounded in the ground invasion in Gaza, is brought to Shaarei Tzedek hospital in Jerusalem, December 29, 2023.

Israel at War day 643: What's going on in Israel, Gaza, West Bank?

Netanyahu: Israel to enter talks for permanent ceasefire in Gaza after 60 days • Defense minister: Israel will strike Iran again if provoked • One murdered in West Bank terror attack

Here, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, accompanied by Trump, speaks during a dinner in the Blue Room of the White House on Monday in Washington.

IDF announces death of Master Sgt. Abraham Azulay in combat in Gaza

Azulay, 20, a resident of Yitzhar in the West Bank, served in the 77th Armored Corps Battalion.

 Master Sergeant (Res.) Abraham Azulay

Five IDF soldiers killed, 14 wounded in explosive Hamas ambush in Beit Hanun

During the evacuation of the wounded, the soldiers encountered gunfire, leading to 14 soldiers being wounded in varying degrees of severity.

 IDF announces the names of five fallen soldiers from the Kfir Brigade, killed in Beit Hanoun in the Gaza Strip, July 8, 2025.

IDF soldier takes his own life after struggling with mental health from Oct 7, Gaza war

"He told me he saw horrors and said, 'Mom, I can’t stop smelling the bodies, and I see the bodies all the time,'" Daniel's mother, Sigal Edri, recalled.

 Daneil Edri, an IDF soldier.

'I still cannot swallow it': Families, officials eulogize deaths of Sgts. Asaf Zamir, Yair Eliyahou

“From the day you were born, I feared the day you would enlist, I don’t know why," Eliyahou's mother said.

 IDF announces deaths of Sergeant Yair Eliyahou and Sergeant Asaf Zamir in Gaza, July 4, 2025.

Security forces kill terrorist Qassem Salah Al-Husseini in southern Lebanon

Al-Husseini was a key figure in a weapons smuggling route from Iran through Syria to various locations in the northern front and to the West Bank. 

 Women walk near destroyed buildings, with one holding the flag of Hezbollah, in the southern Lebanese village of Kfar Kila, after an Israeli military spokesperson said that Israel would keep troops in several posts in southern Lebanon past the deadline for them to withdraw, February 18, 2025.