Israel will destroy all of the tunnels that lead from Gaza to southern Israel, with or without a cease-fire, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.
First Sergeant Mordechai, a 22-year-old combat engineer, was supposed to be released from the army this month.
Max Levin, a 21-year-old New Community Jewish High School graduate and Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldier, is recovering in a central Israel hospital following injuries he sustained Wednesday in the Gaza Strip.
Israeli troops in southern Gaza arrested 150 Palestinians, dozens of whom surrendered voluntarily to the soldiers.
Jonathan and Daphne Orenshein do not like when an unknown number pops up on their cell phone.
Rabbi Eliyahu Fink of Pacific Jewish Center in Venice was at a loss over how to respond to the latest crisis in Israel, namely, the country’s current war with the Hamas-controlled coastal enclave of Gaza.
Up until last weekend, Israel’s “Operation Protective Edge” in the Gaza strip seemed to be just another hard round of fire between the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Gaza’s ruling party, Hamas — the latest in a cyclical pattern of violence that repeats itself every two or three years.
More than 50 former Israeli soldiers have refused to serve in the nation\’s reserve force, citing regret over their part in a military they said plays a central role in oppressing Palestinians, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday.
A crowd estimated at 30,000 flooded the funeral of American lone soldier Max Steinberg, who was killed in Gaza.
The Israel Defense Forces announced that another Israeli soldier was killed in Gaza.
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