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Heritage Minister Amichay Eliyahu attends an Otzma Yehudit supporters’ conference ahead of the upcoming election, in Petah Tikva, August 16, 2026. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)
September 16, 2026, 1:02 pm
Far-right minister panned for opposing IDF combat duty for anti-government protesters
‘In the end they won’t storm into battle,’ Amichay Eliyahu asserts; bereaved fathers whose fallen sons attended Kaplan rallies bash him, as do opposition leaders
By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff
New recruits to the IDF’s 401st Armored Brigade arrive at Ariel Sharon Park in central Israel on their enlistment day, August 2, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
September 3, 2026, 9:09 am
IDF didn’t take DNA from 20,000 new recruits, including fighters, amid budget dispute
Military Rabbinate and Medical Corps can’t agree on whose budget should pay for equipment used to preserve DNA samples, collected by the army to identify soldiers killed in action
By ToI Staff
Alon Shamriz (Courtesy)
July 26, 2026, 4:35 pm
High Court rejects petition to recognize mistakenly slain hostage as fallen soldier
Family of Alon Shamriz calls ruling ‘spit in the face,’ had argued that he received reserve orders for his elite unit on Oct. 7 as he was abducted, would have answered the call
By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff
Adjutant Corps Chief Brig. Gen. Edna Ilia (right) meets with a sister of Pvt. Yaakov Zarihan, July 7, 2026 (Israel Defense Forces)
July 9, 2026, 11:09 am
IDF says soldier missing since 1948 war determined to be buried near Jerusalem
Military says years-long investigation concluded that Pvt. Yaakov Zarihan, killed on April 22, 1948, was interred in mass grave at military cemetery in Kibbutz Kiryat Anavim; headstone to be added
By Emanuel Fabian
Sgt. First Class Nir Ben Ari, 21, who was killed fighting against Hezbollah in Lebanon, overnight June 19-20, 2026. (Israel Defense Forces)
June 20, 2026, 11:01 pm
IDF soldier killed, 13 injured in overnight Hezbollah attack in southern Lebanon
Sgt. First Class Nir Ben Ari is killed amid effort to capture terror group’s ‘strategic’ underground facility beneath Ali Taher ridge; 3 more troops killed in Friday incident named
By Emanuel Fabian
Combo image shows Israel Police Chief Medical Officer, Chief Superintendent Dr. Valerie Shoshan, on right, and a group of ultra-Orthodox protesters trying to flip over her car in Jerusalem, June 2, 2026. (Screenshot/Avi Topurovich via X/Israel Police)
June 2, 2026, 4:15 pm
Ultra-Orthodox anti-draft mob attacks bereaved mother of IDF soldier in her car
Rioters try to overturn vehicle of Valerie Shoshan, who is the chief medical officer of the Israel Police; ‘I felt Elyassaf was with me,’ she says of son killed in Gaza fighting
By ToI Staff
Staff Sgt. Adam Tzarfati, 20, killed in south Lebanon on June 1, 2026. (Courtesy)
June 1, 2026, 12:29 pm
IDF soldier killed, 3 hurt, in Hezbollah drone attack near newly seized Beaufort Castle
Staff Sgt. Adam Tzarfati is army’s 13th fatality since start of now-eroded ceasefire; terror group keeps up attacks, fires rockets at Tiberias for first time in almost 2 months
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
Troops of the Golani Brigade's Reconnaissance Unit operate at the Beaufort Castle in southern Lebanon, in a handout photo published on May 31, 2026. (Israel Defense Forces)
May 31, 2026, 12:13 pm
IDF captures strategic Beaufort Castle, as soldier killed in Hezbollah drone strike
Defense minister hails Israeli flag flying for first time since 2000 over Crusader fortress, a symbol of Israel’s previous wars in Lebanon; Staff Sgt. Michael Tyukin, 21, was an only child who moved to Israel from Ukraine
By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies
An undated photo of Sgt. Rotem Yanai, who was killed in a Hezbollah drone attack near the Lebanon border on May 27, 2026. (Courtesy)
May 28, 2026, 9:09 am
Soldier killed in Hezbollah drone attack as Israel widens strikes on terror group
Sgt. Rotem Yanai, 20, killed while running to shelter in military zone on northern border, two reservists injured; IDF targets terror sites around Tyre after urging civilians to flee further north
By Emanuel Fabian and AFP
Sgt. Nehoray Leizer, killed in Lebanon May 24, 2026 (Israel Defense Forces)
May 25, 2026, 8:55 am
Soldier killed in south Lebanon by Hezbollah drone, another seriously wounded
Sgt. Nehoray Leizer, 19, from Eilat, was driving armored personnel carrier when it was struck in the Bint Jbeil area; he is 10th soldier killed amid truce, 23rd since March 2
By ToI Staff
Cap: Maj. (res.) Itamar Sapir. (Israel Defense Forces)
May 19, 2026, 11:41 pm
IDF reservist killed in exchange of fire with Hezbollah in southern Lebanon
Itamar Sapir, 27, survived by wife and one-year-old son, was killed when a Hezbollah operative fired at him from inside a church
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
Warrant Officer (res.) Alexander Glovanyov (Courtesy)
May 11, 2026, 10:19 am
IDF reservist killed in Hezbollah explosive drone attack in northern Israel
Alexander Glovanyov, 47, survived by wife, baby daughter, teen son; 3 troops lightly injured in drone attack in south Lebanon; IDF probing strike that killed man, 12-year-old daughter
By Emanuel Fabian, Nurit Yohanan and ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a state Memorial Day ceremony commemorating fallen soldiers, at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, April 21, 2026. (Ilia Yefimovich/Pool Photo via AP)
April 21, 2026, 3:50 pm
In bellicose Memorial Day speeches, leaders vow to keep fighting; Netanyahu heckled
Defense minister says Hezbollah leader will ‘pay with his head’; protester interrupts PM when he says he brought back all the hostages from Gaza; Gantz warns of ‘deceptive calm’
By Sam Sokol, Lazar Berman, Charlie Summers and ToI Staff
In a photo taken on February 21, 2024, Revital Shamir with her 4-year-old son Lavi and newborn girl Ori are at their home in Havat Yair (Yair's Farm). Revital's husband Mordechai was killed in military service while fighting Hamas terrorists at Kibbutz Re'im on October 7, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/FLASH90)
April 21, 2026, 11:27 am
‘He didn’t fall in vain’: On Memorial Day, two young IDF widows discuss life after death
Alma Levin Fridman and Revital Shamir talk about their husbands, families and communities, sharing their grief – and their stories – with the compatriots their partners fought for
By Jessica Steinberg
At an event for the Youth Creating Memory project, in which musicians work with bereaved families to create songs for those lost since October 7, 2023 (Courtesy)
April 20, 2026, 8:01 pm
In Jerusalem, young composers partner with bereaved families to create musical memories
The Tarbut Movement pairs families who lost loved ones on or after Oct. 7, 2023, with local school musical programs to create and record songs commemorating them in the styles they loved
By Jessica Steinberg
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