Combat Engineering Corps

Newly constructed earthworks and sniper posts on the Gaza border in footage broadcast by Channel 13 on October 9, 2019. (Screenshot)

October 10, 2019, 12:24 am

IDF nears completion of new Gaza border fortifications

Army builds improved sniper posts, earthworks and walls to protect against gunfire, anti-tank missiles and other terror threats from Hamas-run Strip

By TOI staff

The IDF Combat Engineering Corps released photos on May 26, 2019, showing the simultaneous detonation of 900 landmines during demining work at the Land of the Monasteries near Jericho. (IDF)

May 27, 2019, 4:21 pm

900 landmines detonated in Qasr al Yahud on the Jordan River

IDF Combat Engineering and NGO Halo Trust are in the process of demining 6,500 landmines from church compounds near Jericho

By Melanie Lidman

A soldier casting a ballot for the 21st Knesset on April 7, 2019. (IDF Spokesman's Unit)

April 8, 2019, 5:40 am

Combat engineering troops kick off IDF’s vote for 21st Knesset

Hundreds of polling stations set up at IDF bases as troops cast ballots over 72 hours starting from Saturday night

By TOI staff

The Israel Defense Forces blows up a tunnel reaching into Israel under the border from Lebanon, December 20, 2018 (IDF Spokesperson)

December 21, 2018, 1:30 pm

Video shows military blowing up Hezbollah cross-border tunnel

IDF officer seen warning Lebanese residents to clear the area as Israel begins destroying passages found during ongoing operation

By Judah Ari Gross and TOI staff

An IDF operator holds up his drone and remote control on June 7, 2018, in a field burned by 'fire kites' from the Gaza Strip. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

June 8, 2018, 10:00 am

Despite concerns, senior IDF technology officer says anti-kite drones a success

Head of IDF Ground Forces R&D unit says soldiers and drafted hobbyists have succeeded in bringing down over 500 fire kites and balloons

By Judah Ari Gross

Air force reservists use drones to identify and shoot down incoming balloons and kites from Gaza that are fitted with flammable materials to set Israeli fields on fire, June 7, 2018. (Hadashot News screenshot)

June 7, 2018, 12:10 pm

Israeli drones downed over 350 incendiary terror kites, balloons — report

Professional operators across Israel asking to join IDF reservists to help; troops able to shoot down flying objects 40 seconds from detection

By Sue Surkes

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. (Screen capture/YouTube)

May 11, 2017, 10:26 pm

Nasrallah: Next war with Israel could be waged inside Israeli territory

In televised speech, Hezbollah chief says its terrorists and rockets can reach ‘all the positions across the Zionist entity’

By TOI staff and AP

Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, left, stands next to the Head of Mission and Force Commander of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), Major General Michael Beary, center, of Ireland, during a visit to the UNIFIL headquarters in the southern Lebanese village of Naqura on April 21, 2017. (AFP/Mahmoud Zayyat)

April 21, 2017, 5:11 pm

Lebanese PM criticizes Hezbollah’s press tour on Israel border

Saad Hariri raps group’s ‘unacceptable’ presence in UN-created border buffer zone, in violation of 2006 Security Council resolution

By Dov Lieber and Agencies

Hezbollah officer gives field tour to Lebanese journalists on the border with Israel on April 20, 2017. (Screenshot from LBC)

April 20, 2017, 6:50 pm

Hezbollah gives reporters grand tour of new Israeli defenses

Officer in the Lebanese terror group says that Israel, ‘for the first time’ in history, is switching to ‘a defensive doctrine’

By Dov Lieber

Maj. Eliyahu Gabay speaks with workers creating a berm near the Lebanese border at kibbutz Hanita on March 22, 2017. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

April 14, 2017, 10:17 am

With berms, cliffs and concrete, a Sun Tzu-quoting major works to keep Hezbollah out

Relentlessly preparing for a third Lebanon war, Eliyahu Gabay is literally changing the landscape on the northern border

By Judah Ari Gross

Illustrative photo of a minefield in northern Israel (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

March 12, 2017, 5:16 pm

Food foragers stumble into minefield, decline army rescue

2 residents of Druze village on Golan Heights tell police they entered fenced area in search of edible plants

By TOI staff

IDF soldiers and medical personnel at the site of an accidental grenade explosion near the village of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights on July 17, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / JALAA MAREY)

September 27, 2016, 10:03 pm

IDF chief reprimands officers of soldiers killed in accident

Sgt. Shlomo Rindenow and Staff Sgt. Hussam Tafesh died when grenade Tafesh was ‘playing with’ detonated, military official says

By Judah Ari Gross

Illustrative photo of IDF soldiers conducting training in a field near the border with Gaza in southern Israel, on July 22, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

August 30, 2016, 11:21 pm

IDF soldier stays behind in firing zone, gets shot at by comrades

6 bullets narrowly miss member of Combat Engineering Corps who remained in live fire area to fix his jammed weapon

By TOI staff

An IDF D9 bulldozers, manufactured by Catepillar. (Hamad Almakt/Flash90)

August 17, 2016, 12:04 am

7 soldiers injured as bulldozer collides with APC in northern Israel

Reasons behind crash still unknown; victims were working to shore up defenses along Lebanese border before the crash

By Judah Ari Gross

IDF troops position sections of a wall near the Lebanon border at Kibbutz Misgav Am, April 20, 2016 (Channel 2 screenshot)

June 8, 2016, 11:41 am

IDF working 24/7 to shore up ‘insufficient’ defenses on Lebanese border

Combat engineers put up walls, fences and create cliffs to protect Israeli communities from Hezbollah attacks

By Judah Ari Gross