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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 622

West Point

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
United States Military Academy graduating cadets wear face masks as they stand next to their socially-distanced seats during commencement ceremonies in West Point, New York, June 13, 2020. (AP/John Minchillo, Pool)
June 14, 2020, 5:09 am
Trump addresses West Point grads but largely ducks controversies
US president in speech at military academy side-steps racial unrest roiling country, and the army’s role in putting it down, as his tensions with Pentagon linger
By AFP
Navy midshipmen march ahead of an NCAA college football game between the Army and the Navy, December 14, 2019, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
December 21, 2019, 6:23 am
US military academies say students didn’t make racist hand gestures on TV
West Point and US Naval Academy say trainees were playing an ‘innocent game’ when they flashed signal used by white nationalists at nationally televised football game
By AFP
Navy cadets watch as US President Donald Trump attends the Army-Navy football game in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on December 14, 2019. (Andrew CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP)
December 15, 2019, 6:34 am
US Army and Navy probing ‘white power’ hand signals at football game
Cadets seen making gesture during broadcast of nationally televised game attended by Trump
By AP
Five of the 12 Jewish cadets who graduated from West Point stand together together with Lt. Gen. Darryl A. Williams, superintendent of West Point. The cadets are, from left to right: Joshua Fernquist, Andrew Zinner, Noah Carlen, Rachelle David and Ryan Oppenheim (Courtesy Glenn Goldman)
May 28, 2019, 1:54 am
As it sets diversity record, West Point quietly graduates 1,000th Jewish student
America’s most famous military academy made headlines Saturday with 34 African American women cadets in its most diverse graduating class — but US Jews also celebrated a milestone
By Cathryn J. Prince
Vanderbilt graduate student Taylor Force was killed Tuesday March 8, 2016 in a terror attack in Jaffa. (Facebook)
May 21, 2016, 9:07 am
Israel returns to PA bodies of Jaffa, Petah Tikva terrorists
One of bodies is that of Bashar Massalha, who killed US tourist Taylor Force in seafront rampage in March
By ToI Staff
Israeli and American officials participate in a goodbye ceremony for Taylor Force, the US citizen killed in a stabbing terror attack in Jaffa, as his body is sent back to be buried in the United States, at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, on Friday, March 11, 2016. (Flash90)
March 11, 2016, 5:02 pm
Body of US terror victim returns home after Israel farewell service
US diplomat: Taylor Force’s ‘death forms additional bond between people of United States and people of Israel’
By ToI Staff
File: Vanderbilt graduate student Taylor Force was killed Tuesday, March 9, 2016 in a terror attack in Tel Aviv- Jaffa. (Facebook)
March 9, 2016, 10:50 pm
In Israel, Taylor Force was exploring a future in start-ups
Former US army vet killed in Jaffa terror attack remembered as avid skier who loved horses and ‘lived large’
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson speaks to the media before speaking at a gala for the Black Republican Caucus of South Florida at PGA National Resort in Palm Beach, Florida, on November 6, 2015. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFP)
November 7, 2015, 2:57 am
White House hopeful Carson bristles under intense scrutiny
Discrepancies, inconsistencies and, lately, apparent falsifications discovered while digging into neurosurgeon’s background
By Michael Mathes
A Maccabi Tel Aviv player is evaluated using the PhysiMax system (Courtsy)
September 30, 2015, 12:51 pm
Israeli start-up keeps West Point cadets in shape
Phyismax’s movement analysis system is being used by the US army, sports organizations, universities to avoid injuries
By David Shamah
A cadet at the graduation ceremony for US Military Academy at West Point, NY, May 23, 2009. (DoD/U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Jerry Morrison)
From the WebSeptember 1, 2015, 10:40 am
Law professor who called for attacks on ‘Islamic holy sites’ resigns
William C Bradford to leave US Military Academy at West Point after saying scholars should be treated as ‘enemy combatants,’ the Guardian reports
US Army Captain Kristen Griest, of Orange, Connecticut, left, smiles as she stands in formation during an Army Ranger School graduation ceremony, Friday, August 21, 2015, at Fort Benning, Georgia (AP/John Bazemore)
August 22, 2015, 7:16 pm
New US Army chief ponders women’s role in combat
General Mark Milley is, among other things, looking at Israeli experience to decide whether to keep some posts male-only
By Robert Burns
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