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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 477

Artillery Corps

Elbit Systems' ATMOS 2000 self-propelled howitzer, which will serve as the basis for the IDF's next artillery cannon, as seen on May 19, 2008. (Rowielip/Wikimedia/CC BY-SA 3.0)
August 3, 2020, 6:47 pm
Report accuses IDF, Defense Ministry of flouting rules in picking new cannon
Comptroller says military failed to consider alternatives to giving contract for new artillery gun to Elbit, presented government with a falsely inflated price for competing model
By Judah Ari Gross
Mordechai Schachter at his home in Teaneck, New Jersey. (Josefin Dolsten/JTA)
April 19, 2018, 3:59 am
A Holocaust survivor recalls fighting in Israel’s War of Independence
As Israel turns 70, New Jersey-resident Mordechai Schachter details his flight from Romania to the Holy Land and how he was drafted to be an artillery commander in the nascent IDF
By Josefin Dolsten
Soldiers from the IDF's Sky Riders Unit work on a Skylark drone during an exercise in an undated photograph. (Israel Defense Forces)
January 23, 2018, 11:43 am
IDF’s ‘sky riders’ fly high under first female commander
Artillery Corps’ elite drones unit sheds light on its operations as two new UAV models are set to be put to use
By Judah Ari Gross
Illustrative: An IDF soldier from the Artillery Corps launches an Elbit Skylark drone, known in the IDF as a Sky Rider, on January 21, 2013. (Cpl. Zev Marmorstein/Israel Defense Forces)
July 18, 2017, 11:18 am
Palestinians recover, return IDF drone that crashed near Nablus
Civil Administration oversees transfer of Skylark-model UAV back to Israeli hands after it falls out of the sky in West Bank
By Judah Ari Gross
A soldier training with the man-portable and hand-launched skylark mini UAV (Photo credit: Courtesy: Cpl. Zev Marmorstein/ IDF Spokesperson's Unit)
July 4, 2017, 2:24 am
Small Israeli drone crashes in southern Gaza, says army
In year’s third such incident, IDF investigates what caused Skylark-model UAV to fall out of the sky; Hamas says it has device
By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross
Illustrative: An IDF soldier from the Artillery Corps launches an Elbit Skylark drone, known in the IDF as a Sky Rider, on January 21, 2013. (Cpl. Zev Marmorstein/Israel Defense Forces)
May 22, 2017, 7:20 pm
IDF drone crashes in Lebanon; army investigating
Military says no risk of intel breach after Skylark-model UAV falls out of the sky, in year’s fourth such incident
By Judah Ari Gross
An Israeli soldier holds a Skylark drone during the search for three Jewish teenagers near Hebron, in the West Bank, June 14, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 15, 2017, 2:56 pm
Small Israeli drone crashes in northern Gaza — army
IDF investigating what caused Skylark-model UAV to fall out of the sky, in year’s second such incident
By Judah Ari Gross
An Israeli soldier holds a Skylark drone during the search for three Jewish teenagers near Hebron, in the West Bank, June 14, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 16, 2017, 10:10 pm
IDF scrambles to find drone that crashed in southern Lebanon
Small Skylark UAV falls on Lebanese side of northern border; Lebanese army, UNIFIL said searching for wreckage
By Judah Ari Gross
Entrance to a Hamas terror tunnel discovered by the IDF running under the Gaza border into Israel on May 5, 2016. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)
May 7, 2016, 9:09 pm
Israel vows to press on with anti-tunnel operations amid Gaza tensions
Officials say Hamas does not seek escalation, is not behind rocket fire on communities; farmers to be allowed back to fields near border
By ToI Staff
Palestinian mourners carry the bodies of three children who were killed in a fire caused by a candle, during their funeral in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, Saturday, May 7, 2016. (AP Photo/ Khalil Hamra)
May 7, 2016, 4:47 pm
Hamas blames PA, Israel for deaths of 3 children in Gaza house fire
Ismail Haniyeh says Israeli blockade, high price of diesel imposed by PA, led to deaths of 3 kids whose candle-lit home burned down
By ToI Staff
Smoke rises following an Israeli air strike in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on May 5, 2016. (AFP/Said Khatib)
May 7, 2016, 5:33 am
Israel strikes Hamas targets in Gaza after rocket fire on south
Terror group claims IAF raid hit brickworks in Khan Younis, but witnesses say Hamas military wing struck, causing significant damage
By ToI Staff
Illustrative. A rocket is fired at Israel from Gaza on August 9, 2014. (AP/Dusan Vranic)
May 7, 2016, 12:36 am
Two mortar shells fired from Gaza land in northern Negev
No injuries or damage reported; Israel carries out air raids on Hamas targets in Strip in retaliation
By ToI Staff
Palestinian Hamas leader in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, gives a speech during a rally in Gaza City, Aug. 27, 2014. (AP/Khalil Hamra)
May 6, 2016, 2:28 pm
Hamas: We don’t seek war, but won’t accept Israeli ‘incursions’
Ismail Haniyeh says IDF soldiers entering enclave ‘on pretext of searching for tunnels’ … a day after Israel finds tunnel
By ToI Staff, Judah Ari Gross, AFP and Avi Issacharoff
Smoke billows over Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip as Israel Air Force planes struck four Hamas military targets, May 5, 2016. (Screenshot: Shehab News Agency)
May 6, 2016, 9:36 am
Israeli jets strike Gaza after shells fired at soldiers
12 mortar attacks on IDF positions, 4 retaliatory airstrikes on Hamas sites since Tuesday; no immediate reports of injuries in latest incident
By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross
An Israeli tank fires towards Gaza, near the Israel and Gaza border on the morning of Sunday, July 27, 2014. (Photo credit: AP/Tsafrir Abayov)
May 6, 2016, 8:00 am
IDF soldiers shelled on Gaza border; no injuries
Mortar attacks on army positions have persisted since Tuesday; Netanyahu set to convene security cabinet on escalation in violence
By ToI Staff
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