The army's "Strategy and Iran Directorate" will be renamed the "Strategy and Third-Circle Directorate," to indicate that all countries in Israel's "third-circle" periphery, and not just Iran, are under its purview.
Soldiers from the Cyber Defense Unit, which operates under the C4i Directorate, identified the attack and for several days carried out a covert operation intended to expose the attackers and foil their plan.
The "Keystone" exercise, scheduled for September, was supposed to put the army's various commands through a variety of multifaceted scenarios, with an emphasis on the northern sector.
Senior defense officials to convene Wednesday to discuss the ramifications of applying Israeli law in Judea and Samaria. Officials believe that if Israel suffices with a declarative measure and applies sovereignty only on a very limited scale, tensions on the ground can likely be contained. However, the wider the scope of annexation, greater are the odds of violence on the ground.
"The successful experiment today is more good tidings for Israeli citizens and more bad tidings for Israel’s enemies," says PM Benjamin Netanyahu after Israel Aerospace Industries conducts successful test of LORA short-range ballistic missile system.
A decade after Israeli naval commandos stopped a flotilla trying to breach the maritime blockade on Gaza Strip, soldiers involved in the raid say mission intelligence fell short, passengers' violence "was off the charts."
University of Haifa Professor Gabriel Weimann warns that future conflicts "will be fought mostly with a keyboard and a screen and not with tanks, planes or bombs."
Egyptian-Israeli relations are at their best level since the peace treaty was signed, mostly based on common security interests. But something can always go wrong.
In the duration of Israel’s south Lebanon presence, it lost 414 soldiers, as hundreds of SLA fighters and more than 1,000 Hezbollah members were killed.
Amid the chaos of the Syrian civil war, Israel has carried out repeated strikes aimed at pushing back Iranian forces and preventing the transfer of advanced weapons to Hezbollah in Lebanon.
