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188th Armored Brigade

Sgt. First Class Yinon Fleischman, 31, a reserves soldier from Jerusalem, who was killed in a tank accident on the northern border on October 29, 2023. (Courtesy)
November 13, 2023, 4:16 pm
Sgt. First Class (res.) Yinon Fleishman, 31: Beloved educator
Efrat resident was killed in a tank accident along the northern border on October 29
By ToI Staff
Yom Kippur War veterans Roni Mansur (in white) and Moshe Kahalani walk toward the tank Mansur fought in during the first day of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, September 13, 2023 (Lazar Berman/Times of Israel)
October 6, 2023, 8:43 pm
On battle-scarred Golan, memories of a desperate fight still fresh after 50 years
Tank crewmen who slowed the Syrian onslaught on day one of Yom Kippur War take The Times of Israel to their tanks, and vent frustration with fellow vets protesting judicial reforms
By Lazar Berman
Soldiers inspect an IDF tank that flipped over during an exercise in northern Israel on December 9, 2019. (Courtesy)
December 9, 2019, 7:42 pm
Northern Command halts all exercises after tank flips during training
None injured as Merkava turns over during a drill; Maj. Gen. Amir Baram calls for full investigation into the incident
By Judah Ari Gross
Yaakov Selavan
July 20, 2018, 4:16 pm
Yaakov Selavan
A war in Gaza, a pair of underpants and Tisha B’Av
How do you get through your fear and rush in under fire to save your friends?
The IDF's 188th Armored Brigade takes part in a large exercise in northern Israel meant to simulate war in Lebanon in February 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)
February 22, 2018, 5:19 pm
IDF simulates war in Lebanon, amid tensions with Iran, Hezbollah
Reservist, conscript brigades take part in large-scale exercises along the Lebanese border to ‘improve preparedness on the northern front,’ army says
By Judah Ari Gross
Yaakov Selavan, a former officer in the Armored Corps, speaks with a newly inducted soldier who was jailed after refusing to serve in the tank brigades, in the army's Prison 6 on November 30, 2016. (Courtesy Yaakov Selavan)
December 1, 2016, 6:49 am
Before telling army no tanks, objectors banded together online
Former 188th Brigade officer meets with 86 recruits who refused Armored Corps, tries to convince them to give tanks a try
By Judah Ari Gross
Left to right, Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman, incoming head of the Israel Navy Vice Adm. Eli Sharvit, outgoing naval commander Vice Adm. Ram Rothberg and IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot during a ceremony in the army's Tel Aviv headquarters during which Sharvit received his new position on September 12, 2016. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)
September 12, 2016, 9:53 pm
IDF gets new top sailor, as Eisenkot makes fresh appointments
Eli Sharvit to take over from Ram Rothberg as Israel’s naval chief; army announces 21 senior position changes
By Judah Ari Gross
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds an 500 hundred-year-old Torah scroll as he poses for a picture with some of the Yemenite Jews who were brought to Israel as part of a secret rescue operation, at the Knesset on March 21, 2016. (Haim Zach/GPO)
March 25, 2016, 4:34 pm
Operation to rescue Yemeni Jews was 2 years in the making, son says
From the US, Manny Dahari helped orchestrate his family’s airlift to Israel; ‘I’m just so relieved right now. I know that they’re safe,’ he says
By Judah Ari Gross
Commander of the 188th Armored Brigade Col. Nir Ben-David stands in front of his tank during an exercise in the Golan Heights on Oct. 19, 2015. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)
November 1, 2015, 11:52 am
One IDF officer’s quest to teach his tanks how to turn on a dime
Col. Nir Ben-David says he wants his troops to become ‘experts in switching between different situations,’ and warns Palestinians not to ‘wake the lion’
By Judah Ari Gross
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