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

In addition to its kehillot and chavurot maintains a kibbutz ( Kibbutz Hanaton ), a moshav ( Moshav Shorashim ), and IDF Garinim, Masorti groups within the Israeli Defense Forces.

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak described the adopted Fatah platform as not very promising.

In August 2005, the Israel Defense Forces and Israeli police forcibly removed all settlers from the Gaza Strip.

Hezbollah waged an asymmetrical guerrilla war against Israel using suicide attacks against the Israel Defense Forces ( IDF ) and against Israeli targets outside of Lebanon.

* 1982 – 1982 Lebanon War begins: Forces under Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon invade southern Lebanon in their " Operation Peace for the Galilee ", eventually reaching as far north as the capital Beirut.

* 1978 – Israeli Defense Forces withdraw from Lebanon.

On 14 March 2006, the Israel Defense Forces launched Operation Bringing Home the Goods, raiding a Jericho prison to capture PFLP general secretary, Ahmad Sa ' adat and five other prisoners charged with assassinating Israeli tourist minister Rehavam Zeevi who were about to be released.

* 2009 – Gaza War: Hamas announces they will accept Israeli Defense Forces's offer of a ceasefire, ending the assault.

The JPMG is co-chaired by the director general of the Israeli Ministry of Defense and the U. S. Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs.

" At the time, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and Israeli Minister of Defense Ariel Sharon signed a memorandum of understanding in 1981 " establishing a framework for continued consultation and cooperation to enhance " national security.

Krav Maga is used by Israeli Defense Forces, both regular and special forces, and several closely related variations have been developed and adopted by law enforcement and intelligence organizations, Mossad and Shin Bet.

* 1978 – The Israeli Defense Force invades and occupies southern Lebanon, in Operation Litani.

Kahane founded both the Jewish Defense League ( JDL ) in the USA and Kach (" This is the Way "), an Israeli political party.

Having achieved spectacular successes in the offensive with tank-heavy formations during the Six Day War, the Israeli Defense Force found in the Yom Kippur War of 1973 that a doctrine that relied primarily on tanks and aircraft had proven inadequate.

* 1968 – Battle of Karameh in Jordan between Israeli Defense Forces and Fatah.

In modern times there is a universal military service requirement for Israeli citizens that leaves most of them in the reserves of the Israel Defense Forces, authorized to carry and keep in their possession weapons during the periods when they are called back to the army.

Switzerland long maintained, proportionally, the second largest military force in the world, with about half the proportional amount of reserve forces of the Israeli Defense Forces, a militia of some 33 % of the total population.

Golda Meir and the Israeli Defense Committee secretly authorized the Mossad to track down and kill those allegedly responsible for the Munich massacre, a claim which was disputed by Zvi Zamir, who described the mission as “ putting an end to the type of terror that was perpetrated ” ( in Europe ).

They accuse of moral equivalence those who describe acts of Palestinian terrorism, such as suicide bombing against civilians, on one hand, and the retaliatory acts of the Israeli Defense Forces, on the other, as equally reprehensible.

In January 2008 Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak met with former Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Khalifa al-Thani in Switzerland, at the Davos Economic Forum.

In October 2003, following a suicide bombing carried out by a member of Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Haifa that killed 20 Israeli citizens, Israeli Defense Forces attacked a suspected Palestinian militant training camp 15 kilometers north of Damascus.

* 1974 – A Disengagement of Forces agreement is signed between the Israeli and Egyptian governments, ending conflict on the Egyptian front of the Yom Kippur War.

In 1948, the Lebanese Third Sharp Shooters Regiment fought Israeli Forces occupying the Lebanese village of Malkieh in the northern Galilee and captured it, and that by the orders of Lebanese defense minister then, Emir Majid Arslan II.

He joined the Palmach in 1942, and served in the Israeli Defence Forces after the creation of the State of Israel.

Paragraph 19 of the revised constitution of 1874 extended the definition of the federal army to every able-bodied male citizen, swelling the size of the army ( at least in theory ) from under 150, 000 to more than 700, 000, with population growth during the 20th century rising further to some 1. 5 million, the second largest armed force per capita after the Israeli Defence Forces.

In April 1946, the last French officers were forced to leave Syria due to sustained resistance offensives ; the Levantine Forces then became the regular armed forces of the newly independent state and grew rapidly to about 12, 000 by the time of the 1948 Arab − Israeli War, the first of four Arab − Israeli wars between 1948 and 1986.

In Israel, a kosher variant of Spam, known as Loof (, distortion of meatloaf ), was produced by Richard Levi, and mostly used as part of field rations by the Israeli Defense Forces.

On August 4, 2005, Eden Natan-Zada, an AWOL Israel Defense Forces soldier, killed four Israeli Arab citizens and wounded several others when he opened fire on a bus in the northern Israeli town of Shfaram.

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Ecuador reportedly also employed Israeli security specialists as consultants in the fight against terrorism.

They were identified as Luttif Afif ( Issa ), the leader ( three of Issa's brothers were also reportedly members of Black September, two of them in Israeli jails ), his deputy Yusuf Nazzal ( Tony ), and junior members Afif Ahmed Hamid ( Paolo ), Khalid Jawad ( Salah ), Ahmed Chic Thaa ( Abu Halla ), Mohammed Safady ( Badran ), Adnan Al-Gashey ( Denawi ), and his cousin Jamal Al-Gashey ( Samir ).

On August 23, Israeli Mossad reportedly gave his name to the CIA as part of a list of 19 names they said were planning an attack in the near future.

This was a result of the on-going Israeli refusal to accept apples from Golan farmers ( reportedly due to over-supply ), which led to a plea by the farmers to the Syrian government to accept their produce before it became spoiled in order to prevent economic collapse.

The PFLP-GC has not been involved in major attacks on Israeli targets since the early 1990s, but it has reportedly cooperated with the Hezbollah guerrillas in South Lebanon.

Israeli government reportedly freezes road map for peace negotiations.

The experience of ZAKA members, who reportedly see 38 bodies a week on average in Israel, helped the Israeli forensic team to identify corpses faster than many of the other forensic teams that operated in Thailand in the aftermath of the disaster, which placed them in high demand with grieving families.

The Israeli Air Force, which operates a squadron of Hermes 450s out of Palmachim Airbase south of Tel Aviv, has adapted the Hermes 450 for use as an assault UAV, reportedly equipping it with two Hellfire missiles or, according to various sources, two Rafael-made missiles.

The Popular Resistance Committees and Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack, stating that it was carried out in reprisals for the assassinations of Hamas leaders Sheikh Ahmad Yassin and Abdelaziz Rantisi by the Israeli army earlier the same year and reportedly described it as " heroic ".

The Israeli Mossad reportedly shared this belief.

While there was not time enough to order up special Israeli antiterrorist squads before the confrontation, and the Israeli rescue attempt was reportedly led by some 30 " terrified traffic cops ", other reports say that Ehud Barak, then an officer in the Sayeret Matkal anti-terrorism unit, led the rescue operation.

Al-Wazir is widely believed to have been assassinated by an Israeli commando team, reportedly ferried from Israel by boat, and aided ashore by Mossad intelligence operatives.

The Israeli prime minister, Ehud Barak reportedly offered the Palestinian leader approximately 95 % of the West Bank and the entire Gaza Strip, if 69 Jewish settlements ( which comprise 85 % of the West Bank's Jewish settlers ) be ceded to Israel.

Palestinian officials reportedly viewed Ross as beholden to the Israeli government, and not as an honest broker or even-handed facilitator of negotiations.

On September 26, 2003, he reportedly attended a meeting with Mohammed Deif, Ismail Haniya, one of Hamas ' political leaders, and the organisation's spiritual leader, Sheik Ahmed Yasin, when Israeli forces bombed the house where they gathered.

The terrorists waited in ambush, reportedly wearing Israeli army uniforms, and opened fire on the bus.

According to Israeli authorities Hussam Hamdan was in charge of rocket attacks against Beersheba and Ofakim, while Muhammad Hilo was reportedly behind Hamas ' special forces in Khan Yunis.

Actively searched for by Israel, Nassar, living in hiding, continued to lead groups of Hamas fighters and was reportedly in charge of the cell that detonated a powerful bomb under an Israeli armoured personnel carrier ( APC ) in Gaza City's Zeitun neighborhood, which killed 6 IDF soldiers during an Israeli incursion on May 12, 2004.