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Israeli rescuers search for survivors in Mexico after devastating quake
By TOI staff and Agencies
As death toll rises to 286, Israeli team joins race to find those trapped in rubble, using technology to detect cell phone signals
Rescuers from Israel take part in the search for survivors in a flattened building in Mexico City on September 21, 2017 two days after a strong quake hit central Mexico. (AFP/ Yuri CORTEZ)
September 22, 2017, 4:42 pm
Israeli rescuers search for survivors in Mexico after devastating quake
As death toll rises to 286, Israeli team joins race to find those trapped in rubble, using technology to detect cell phone signals
By TOI staff and Agencies
Jews from around the world along with Israelis and Palestinians make their way to the site of the Sumud Freedom Camp in the South Hebron Hills on May 19, 2017. (Credit: Gili Getz)
September 21, 2017, 7:54 pm
Israel program for Diaspora Jews undaunted by fund cut over pro-Palestinian demo
Achvat Amim launches crowdfunding campaign after Jewish Agency's Masa Israel cancels funding because its participants joined West Bank protest
By Jacob Magid
An IDF Home Front Command team arrives in Mexico to assist following the devastating earthquake that hit the country, September 21, 2017. (IDF spokesperson)
September 21, 2017, 6:37 pm
IDF emergency team arrives to help quake-stricken Mexico
Home Front Command engineers will assess integrity of buildings hit by tremor; small number of rescuers will assist local efforts
By TOI staff and AP
A tank flying the Hezbollah terror group's flag is seen in the Qara area in Syria's Qalamoun region on August 28, 2017.(AFP Photo/Louai Beshara)
September 21, 2017, 1:36 am
Hezbollah has 10,000 fighters in Syria ready to confront Israel, commander says
Iranian-backed Lebanese terror group is an army with 'infantry, rockets, tanks, elite forces,' building tunnels, military bases for future war
By Judah Ari Gross and TOI staff
Soldiers in the IDF Home Front Command's search and rescue units carry a stretcher during a large-scale exercise in Zikim near the Gaza border on July 3, 2016. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)
September 20, 2017, 10:49 am
IDF to send 50-person delegation to earthquake-hit Mexico
Home Front Command engineers will assess integrity of buildings hit by tremor; small number of rescuers will assist local efforts
By Judah Ari Gross
Illegal weaponry seized by the IDF during raids in the West Bank city of Nablus on September 20, 2017. (Israel Defense Forces)
September 20, 2017, 9:56 am
IDF seizes M-16s, pistols, pipe bombs in overnight West Bank raids
Weapons confiscated in Nablus are latest in military's ongoing crackdown on illegal gun trafficking
By Judah Ari Gross
Col. Liran Cohen, head of the IDF's air defense school, left, and Col. David Shank, of the US 10th Army Air & Missile Defense Command, cut the ribbon to open the first American military base in Israel, inside the Mashabim Air Base, on September 18, 2017. (Israel Defense Forces)
September 19, 2017, 9:34 pm
Contradicting IDF, US says it didn’t establish military base in Israel
On its website, Israeli military scrambles to change all mentions of American 'base' to say 'facility,' but insists it's still a first
By Judah Ari Gross
A Patriot missile. (Israel Air Force)
September 19, 2017, 2:21 pm
IDF Patriot intercepts apparent Hezbollah drone from Syria
Army says it 'will not allow' Iran and its allies near the Golan Heights to violate Israeli sovereignty
By Judah Ari Gross
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman speaks at a cornerstone laying ceremony for a new IDF campus in Jerusalem on September 18, 2017. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)
September 18, 2017, 9:52 pm
Liberman says IDF ‘more prepared than ever’ for war
While calling army's level of readiness 'unprecedented,' defense minister says there's still work to do amid growing regional threats
By Alexander Fulbright
Brig. Gen. Tzvika Haimovitch, the head of Israel's Aerial Defense Command, left, plants a tree with Lt. Gen. Richard Clark, commander of the US 3rd Air Force, to mark the establishment of the first American military base in Israel inside the Mashabim Air Base in southern Israel on September 18, 2017. (Israel Defense Forces)
September 18, 2017, 9:08 pm
In first, US establishes permanent military base in Israel
Head of IDF's Aerial Defense Command lauds new air defense facility as a symbolic and operational achievement
By Judah Ari Gross
September 18, 2017, 2:49 pm
I have been a smoker for 63 years
Yes, smoking is bad for your health, but the new IDF anti-cigarette policy impinges on soldiers' rights
By Dov Ivry
September 17, 2017, 3:32 pm
The ultra-Orthodox draft
Most Haredim belong in the IDF; or they insult the Torah study of those few elite scholars who should be exempt
By Dov Lipman
The IDF ambulance attacked by Druze Israeli residents in the Golan Heights as it ferried Syrian war casualties for medical treatment in Israel, June 22, 2015. (Basel Awidat/Flash90)
September 17, 2017, 3:08 pm
Two Israelis convicted of attacking ambulance carrying Syrians
Kamal Amer, 24, and Yusuf Sharif, 55, found guilty of blocking road to prevent transport of rebels injured in civil war
By TOI staff
Israeli soldiers light cigarettes while on patrol at the Anzac Memorial just outside the central Gaza Strip on April 13, 2016. (Corinna Kern/Flash90)
September 17, 2017, 2:51 pm
IDF looks to quit selling cigarettes on army bases
Military rolling out a series of measures to douse the habit, which is harming soldiers' operational capabilities
By Judah Ari Gross
Illustrative: Israeli forces next to the security fence on the border between Israel and southern Gaza Strip. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
September 16, 2017, 12:26 pm
IDF detains 2 Palestinians who entered Israel from Gaza
Pair taken for questioning by security forces after crossing border from southern part of Strip
By TOI staff
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