According to a 2003 study undertaken by the International Diabetes Federation ( IDF ) on the access to and availability of insulin in its member countries, synthetic ' human ' insulin is considerably more expensive in most countries where both synthetic ' human ' and animal insulin are commercially available: e. g. within European countries the average price of synthetic ' human ' insulin was twice as high as the price of pork insulin.

Yet in its position statement, the IDF writes that " there is no overwhelming evidence to prefer one species of insulin over another " and " highly purified animal insulins remain a perfectly acceptable alternative.

The IDF has a difficult, if not impossible time trying to find hidden weapons caches in Palestinian areas — this is due to the high local support base Hamas enjoys.

A recent trend seen in the Israel Defense Forces, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation is the development and introduction of exceptionally well-armored APCs ( HAPC ) such as the IDF Achzarit which are converted from obsolete Main Battle Tanks ( such as the Russian T-55 ).

A IDF טוראי Turai ( Private ) wears no uniform insignia and is sometimes described as having a " slick sleeve " for this reason.

* 24 January: Senior Hamas member Adil Hamad is killed when the IDF fires missiles at his car in Khan Yunis.

An intermediate distribution frame ( IDF ) is a distribution frame in a central office or customer premises, which cross-connects the user cable media to individual user line circuits and may serve as a distribution point for multipair cables from the main distribution frame ( MDF ) or combined distribution frame ( CDF ) to individual cables connected to equipment in areas remote from these frames.

One incident that was often claimed as a motivation is the perceived IDF failure in the " Night of the Gliders ", or the " Kibia action ", in which a Palestinian guerrilla infiltrated an IDF army camp from Lebanon and killed six soldiers.

The Government of Israel rejects with all vigor the absurd and fantastic allegation that 600 men of the IDF took part in the action ... We have carried out a searching investigation and it is clear beyond doubt that not a single army unit was absent from its base on the night of the attack on Qibya.

While in the past there were differences between the siyur units, due to the experiences of the past decades the IDF is now consolidating them into larger units with many different capabilities: battalion-sized units called Gadsar ( contraction of Gdud siyur, " Reconnaissance battalion ").

SAR in Israel is the responsibility of the IDF Home Front Command Search and Rescue ( SAR ).

It uses two projectors that can present either 2D or 3D content in DCI or IMAX Digital Format ( IDF ) ( which in itself is a superset of DCI ).

They argue that the IDF is far more likely to shoot the darker skinned Palestinian civilians than white western looking activists, given the difference in international response.

This is not really a ' strategy ' as such, but is a prerequisite for ISM being able to conduct many of the above activities as areas in which the ISM is active are often summarily designated as " closed military zones " by the IDF.

During the ensuing hour, the activists refused and blocked an entrance to a highway, a " scuffle " broke out: In an interview given by one of the members he stated בשלב מסויים החלטנו לאתגר את החיילים ולנסות להמשיך בנסיעה ( at some point we decided to test the soldiers and continue to move ) and after few moments they had been assaulted and in an interview for JPost " After about half-an-hour, he said, the cyclists decided to push past the IDF, and that is when the violence began .".

In the Israel Defense Forces ( IDF ), since 1951, ( סגן-משנה ( סג " מ Segen mishne ( Sagam ) is equivalent to a Second Lieutenant ( NATO OF-1 ).

In Jerusalem, one of the main British Army camps throughout the mandatory period was known as " Allenby Camp ", and though no longer used by the IDF, the location is still known by this name ; it has some political significance as being the site earmarked for erecting a US Embassy building in Jerusalem, if and when political and diplomatic conditions make moving the embassy from its present Tel-Aviv location possible.

Roi Klein, a major in the IDF, said the Shema before jumping on a live grenade to save his fellow soldiers, in accordance with the traditional Jewish practice of reciting the Shema when one believes one is going to die.

: The Talpiot program is also an elite academic program affiliated with the IDF

Israeli armored IDF Caterpillar D9 | Caterpillar D9 armored bulldozer | bulldozer, which is used by the Israel Defense Forces | IDF Israeli Engineering Corps | Combat Engineering Corps for clearing heavy belly charge s and booby trap | booby-trapped buildings.

The ( רב-סמל ( רס " ל Rav samal ( Rasal ), Sergeant First Class is the lowest non-commissioned officers ( נגדים ) rank in the Israel Defense Forces ( IDF ); above the ( סמל ראשון ( סמ " ר Samal rishon ( Samar, Staff Sergeant ). Because the IDF is an integrated force, they have a unique rank structure.

* 27 December: Two IDF soldiers and two yeshiva students were killed in an attack on the Hesder yeshiva ( military religious academy ) of Otniel.

The IDF agreed to accommodate some of their dietary and other religious requirements.

In November 2010 the IDF held a special conference which was attended by the heads of Religious Zionism in order to encourage female religious Zionists in order to join the IDF.

The IDF promised it would make sure that all modesty and kosher issues will be handled in order to make female religious Zionists comfortable.

Midreshet Be ' er offers a track for religious young women who graduate high school: a year of study and communal-educational experience in Yeruham, two years of IDF or National Service, usually in educational roles, and a final half-year of social action projects in Yeruham.

The following day the IDF revealed that she had been accidentally shot in the head with the M16 carbine belonging to Romam Aldubi, a Jewish 26-year old violence-prone religious nationalist.

" It can be understood from this that Jewish religious law does not determine IDF policy per se.

She was accused of preventing his arrest by the IDF by translating a document for him.

The DOI system overall, through the IDF, operates on a not-for-profit cost recovery basis.

* Sabotage Units: explosives experts who became the basis for the Israeli Engineering Corps in the IDF.

In 2002, it was a primary combat zone in Operation Defensive Shield, a major military offensive by the Israeli Defense Forces ( IDF ).

In the late 1940s, following his immigration to Israel, he began to provide lessons on combat training to what was to become the IDF, who went on to develop the system that became known as Krav Maga.

In 1948, when the State of Israel was founded and the IDF was formed, Imi became Chief Instructor for Physical Fitness and Krav Maga at the IDF School of Combat Fitness.

In the wake of the Camp David Accords, the Israel Defense Forces ( IDF ) withdrew from the Sinai Peninsula, which was captured from Egypt in the Six-Day War.

In 1948, Rehavam Ze ' evi was a platoon commander in the IDF.

A close friend of IDF Chief of Staff David Elazar, he was appointed Special Assistant to the Chief of Staff.

In 1993 he was made commander of the IDF forces in the West Bank.

Beirut was soon besieged and bombarded by the IDF ; Arafat declared the city to be the " Hanoi and Stalingrad of the Israeli army.

Palestinian elections scheduled for January 2002 were postponed — the stated reason was an inability to campaign due to the emergency conditions imposed by the Intifada, as well as IDF incursions and restrictions on freedom of movement in the Palestinian territories.

In the following period he was the deputy commander of Operation Danny, the largest scale operation to that point, which involved four IDF brigades.

Following the demobilisation at the end of the war he was the most senior ( former ) member of the Palmach that remained in the IDF.

In 1964 he was appointed Chief of Staff of the Israel Defence Forces ( IDF ) by Levi Eshkol, who replaced David Ben-Gurion and, like him, served as Prime-Minister and Minister of Defence.

After the Old City of Jerusalem was captured by the IDF, Rabin was among the first to visit the Old City, and delivered a famous speech on Mount Scopus, at the Hebrew University.

Mechinat Rabin, an Israeli pre-army preparatory program for training recent high school graduates in leadership prior to their IDF service, was established in 1998.

In 2002, Ramallah was reoccupied by Israel in an IDF operation codenamed Operation Defensive Shield, which resulted in curfews, electricity cuts, school closures and disruptions of commercial life.

Similarly a January visit to Britain by a team of Israel Defense Force ( IDF ) was cancelled over concerns that arrest warrants would be sought by pro-Palestinian advocates in connection with allegations of war crimes under laws of universal jurisdiction.

Unit 101 ( Hebrew: יחידה 101 ) was a special forces unit of the Israeli Defense Forces ( IDF ), founded and commanded by Ariel Sharon on orders from Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion in August 1953.

It was created in order to better deal with a spate of Arab fedayeen attacks against Israelis, which the IDF was unsuccessful in halting.

At the same time the IDF was ill prepared to respond to these raids.