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IDF pushes manpower revolution to avert crisis amid shortage of 12,000 soldiers

The IDF is quietly overhauling its manpower system to bridge a 12,000-soldier shortfall, sending more troops to combat roles and adding tens of thousands to reserves; but it still needs conscripts, including thousands of Haredim each year

Yossi Yehoshua | 08.14.26

אל"מ ד"ר אבי שינה, מפקד המרכז לשירותי רפואה בצה"ל

Fighting to return: 3 in 4 IDF soldiers wounded in war are back in service

More than 8,900 IDF personnel have been wounded since October 7, yet about 77% have returned to service, including 3,600 combat soldiers, as the military expands medical, emotional and rehabilitation support from hospital to unit

Elisha Ben Kimon | 08.05.26

Wounded in combat, they met in rehab and fell in love

Assaf Yaish and Lian Cohen were wounded in separate military operations last year and faced lengthy rehabilitation; between treatments at Sheba Medical Center, they unexpectedly found each other and fell in love

Gal Ganot | 07.29.26

'We experienced the devastation of the war, and now it is time to bloom and to grow'

'We got on the last truck out of Gaza, and went straight down to the fields of the Jordan Valley'

After 14 months of fighting, Nahal troops spent their final year of service farming, mentoring at-risk youths and supporting isolated communities along Israel’s eastern frontier, blending combat service with agriculture in a modern revival of the Nahal model

Ofir Hauzman | 07.15.26

Israel marks 1,000 days since October 7 with protests, exhibits and mass rally

Events will begin at 6:29 a.m., the moment Hamas launched its attack, and continue through the day with memorial ceremonies, roadblocks, survivor testimonies and a central evening rally in Tel Aviv’s Hostages Square

Roy Rubinstein | 07.02.26

Top demographers challenge Gaza mortality study, warn of possible double counting

Prof. Sergio DellaPergola and Dr. Mark Zlochin say a widely cited Lancet Global Health study estimating about 75,200 violent deaths during the war in Gaza contains methodological flaws that could undermine its findings

Nadav Eyal | 06.28.26

ד"ר תומר פורטנוי, רדיולוג מבית החולים שניידר, שירת במחנה שורה במילואים

'The smell still follows me': Shura workers recount the trauma of identifying October 7 victims

Content warning: Schneider radiologist Dr. Tomer Portnoy opened victims’ body bags at Shura for 10 days; Kaplan imaging technician Yigal Foigel served there too; two years and seven months after October 7, both describe trauma that still haunts them

Ariela Ayalon | 06.27.26

נורית לאון והסיכה שעוצבה עם הציור שצייר בנה, עדי ז"ל

Maccabiah to honor 18 fallen soldiers with special pins

At next month’s Maccabiah, special memorial pins for fallen soldiers, designed with bereaved families, will be unveiled; one honoring Staff Sgt. Adi Leon features a drawing from a letter he wrote before entering Gaza

Gal Ganot | 06.20.26

רוה"מ נתניהו והנשיא הרצוג. מחדלי סייבר חמורים

Government indifference, exposed databases: Israel’s cyber failures laid bare

State comptroller says wartime cyberattacks surged while Israel lacked binding laws, national drills and AI readiness, with sensitive state databases left exposed

Raphael Kahan | 06.09.26

'My grandparents would never believe I stood in Germany in an IDF uniform'

Noam, a Nahal reconnaissance soldier wounded in an incident that killed 5 troops, prayed for IDF soldiers at a Budapest synagogue; Rachel Bayer, whose brother fell in the war, joined the Jewish Agency delegation in Europe

Gal Ganot | 05.10.26

'They were shocked to hear IDF soldiers were saved thanks to German blood'

Lt. Dr. Y, physician of the IDF’s 77th Battalion, visited Germany with the Jewish Agency’s 'Shlichim in Uniform' program, telling lawmakers and Jewish teens how German-donated blood saves wounded soldiers

Gal Ganot | 05.07.26

הימני: אלון וולף, השמאלי: סער חמדי הציל את חייו ב עזה נפגשו ב הוסטל בפנמה

From Khan Younis to Panama: soldier reunites with comrade who saved his life

About 11,000 km from Israel, a post-army trip to Panama led to a rare encounter as Saar met Alon, who saved his life in Gaza 18 months ago, asking, ‘Do you remember me?’

Or Hadar | 04.24.26

Photos from Gaza became their last: Noam, Yaniv, Uri and Ehsan documented before they fell

Families of four IDF soldiers killed in the Swords of Iron war reflect on the sons they lost and on the photos taken in Gaza by an IDF documentation unit — images that became their last

Eti Abramov | 04.21.26

Ten lives, one school: The fallen heroes of Himmelfarb High

Himmelfarb High in Jerusalem has lost nine graduates and a teacher since Oct. 7; a story of ten young lives defined by promise, courage and loss, and of a school rooted in pluralism, tradition and love of country

Dror Feuer | 04.21.26

'I wanted to understand what he went through': Sister of fallen IDF soldier enlists in same combat corps

After losing her brother, Sgt. First Class Tom Rotstein, in Gaza last June, L. fought to change her army assignment and enlist in his combat engineering corps: 'I know there will be hard moments, but that’s where I need to be'

Gal Ganot | 04.06.26

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