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A Hezbollah poster and rocket launchers are seen in a mock Lebanese village as part of an IDF training program in September 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)
September 26, 2019, 7:23 pm
With mock Lebanese village and VR goggles, IDF primes to fight Hezbollah
Military holds week-long training session aimed at preparing senior commanders for battles in Lebanon
By Judah Ari Gross
Bryant Johnson, Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s personal trainer, in his office in the US District Court in Washington, DC, December 19, 2018. (Ron Kampeas)
January 6, 2019, 11:23 pm
Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s personal trainer shares secrets of a healthy Supreme Court
Army reservist Bryant Johnson literally wrote the book on the RBG workout and is responsible for training the court’s other Jewish contingent — Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan
By Ron Kampeas
Soldiers from the Kfir Infantry Brigade simulate war against the Hamas terror group in the Gaza Strip, in November 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)
November 29, 2018, 12:27 pm
IDF’s Kfir Brigade simulates war in Gaza ahead of deployment to border next year
The formerly West Bank-focused unit prepares to fight in the Strip, training inside tunnels and in cramped multi-story buildings
By Judah Ari Gross
In this Sunday, March 18, 2018 photo, an instructor speaks to members of a Tunisian police commando unit during a drill at the Jordan Gendarmerie Training Academy, in al-Swaqa, about 44 miles (70 km) south of Amman, Jordan. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)
March 22, 2018, 12:49 pm
US-funded counterterrorism training center opens in Jordan
Gendarmerie Training Academy is kingdom’s second facility serving law enforcement officials from Mideast partner countries
By AP
Yosef Gotlieb
March 14, 2018, 11:35 am
Yosef Gotlieb
Reimagining Holot detention center
Turn it into a training center and improve the lot of migrants, their countries of origin, and Israel’s role in this crisis
Illustrative. IDF soldiers train next to a tank at the Tzeelim army base in southern Israel on August 19, 2015. (Israel Defense Forces/Flickr)
December 3, 2017, 11:13 pm
Tank fires live shell during what should have been ‘dry’ exercise
No injuries in accident on same Tzeelim base where 5 soldiers were killed by artillery fire in a 1990 exercise
By Judah Ari Gross
Soldiers from the IDF's Kfir Brigade run into a valley in order to destroy a simulated rocket launcher during a training exercise in the Jordan Valley on November 28, 2017. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)
November 30, 2017, 7:25 am
Made for the West Bank, IDF brigade prepares for future fighting in Gaza
Training in the Jordan Valley, the Kfir brigade expands its raison d’etre — fighting Palestinian terrorism — to include the coastal enclave
By Judah Ari Gross
The Israeli army's new Southern Regional Medical Center, which opened its doors in July 2017. (Israel Defense Forces)
August 22, 2017, 1:07 am
Army opens new medical center to treat masses of troops flocking south
As IDF moves its operations to the Negev, Maj. Galit Bidner says her clinics will be there to treat everything from broken bones to fertility complications
By Judah Ari Gross
Foreign tourists train with a wooden gun as they participate in a two hour anti-terror course at the Caliber 3 shooting range, near the West Bank settlement of Efrat on July 18, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / MENAHEM KAHANA)
August 17, 2017, 2:03 am
Israeli company offers ‘anti-terrorism’ adventure to tourists
In settlement of Efrat, foreigners are taught to fire weapons, tackle assailants to help them understand Israel’s counter-terrorism challenge
By Michael Blum
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