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AI-assisted illustration made from a photo showing IDF soldiers operating in the Gaza Strip published by the military on October 3, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces/Times of Israel)
November 22, 2025, 12:21 pm
As machines boot up for war, IDF grapples with how to keep humans on combat’s bleeding edge
Integrating transformative innovations from drones and AI to multi-domain operations, modern militaries are learning how to balance technology with the enduring human cost of battle
By Stav Levaton
July 4, 2025, 9:15 am
Friday Focus with Lazar Berman and guest John Spencer: Is the IDF winning in Gaza?
ToI’s diplomatic reporter is joined by an expert in urban warfare to debate the success of the past almost 21 months of battle in the Strip
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Lazar Berman
Top row from left: Soldiers operating in Rafah in 2024. (IDF spokesperson); Palestinians arrive at al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al Balah on June 8, 2024. (AP/Jehad Alshrafi); A physician checks on an injured child lying on a bed in the emergency room in the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia the northern Gaza Strip on October 24, 2024. (AFP). Bottom row from left: Injured Palestinian children lie on a hospital bed after evacuation into Al-Ahli Arab hospita in Gaza City on October 21, 2024. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP); A Palestinian man rushes an injured five-year-old boy into a hospital after an Israeli strike, in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, on January 14, 2025. (Eyad BABA / AFP); a Hamas fighter holds up his rifle in Khan Younis on February 20, 2025. (AP/Abdel Kareem Hana). Illustration by Times of Israel.
March 8, 2025, 7:22 am
After doctors accuse Israel of shooting Gazan kids, experts see need for a second opinion
The evidence behind a New York Times essay suggesting troops targeted children is less clear-cut than it seems, and there is reason to question the piece’s scathingly anti-IDF author
By Diana Bletter
Illustrative: Israeli startup Xtend supplies the Israeli army and the US Defense Department with drone operating systems. (Courtesy)
May 8, 2024, 10:23 pm
Israeli developer of VR drone system used by IDF in Hamas war raises $40m
Xtend will use the funds to further develop AI operating system that allows humans to manage teams of drones and robots for defense and civilian purposes
By Sharon Wrobel
People search for survivors and for bodies of victims through the rubble of buildings destroyed during Israeli airstrikes, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, October 26, 2023, amid the ongoing war between Israel and Palestinian terror group Hamas. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)
October 28, 2023, 8:49 am
If ground invasion comes, combat in Gaza’s cities will be a bloody grind
Urban warfare offers endless advantages to the defender, and comes at a massive cost to both soldiers and civilians, but the IDF might have no choice
By Lazar Berman
Israeli soldiers climb on a wall as they conduct a mock assault during an urban warfare exercise at an army training facility, in Tzeelim army base, southern Israel, Jan. 24, 2022. (Oded Balilty/AP)
June 22, 2022, 3:14 pm
‘Mini Gaza’: The IDF’s Urban Warfare Training Center, a town that’s known only war
In maze of tight alleyways and drab buildings, decorated by army’s sole official graffiti artist, soldiers hone skills needed for conflict in Gaza Strip, West Bank or even Lebanon
By AP and ToI Staff
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