Rachel Corrie was a US citizen allegedly killed by a bulldozer operated by the Israel Defense Forces ( IDF ) while involved in direct action ( based on the non-violent principles of Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi ) to prevent demolition of the home of local Palestinian pharmacist Samir Nasrallah.

Aqabah (, and also called Al Aqabah, Aqaba, or Al Aqaba ) is a Palestinian village in the northeastern West Bank, which is being targeted for demolition by the Israeli Civil Administration ( the IDF agency responsible for controlling the West Bank ).

* Gaza Strip – March 16, 2003 – Rachel Corrie an American member of ISM was killed by an Israel Defence Forces ( IDF ) bulldozer when attempting to prevent the demolition of a Palestinian's home.

The armored D9 bulldozers were cited by experts as one of the key factors for the low casualties of the IDF in urban warfare.

The extensive use of armored bulldozers during the Second Intifada drew controversy and criticism from human rights organizations while military experts saw it as a key factor in reducing IDF casualties.

Amnesty International conducted an on-site investigation of the incident in collaboration with military experts, using interviews with UNIFIL staff and civilians in the compound, and posing questions to the IDF, who did not reply.

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

The unit dates back to 2004 when the IDF merged the Southern Command Philadelphi Route Smuggling tunnel experts team into Yahalom to form the SAMOOR platoon.

The armored Caterpillar D9 bulldozers were cited by military experts as a key factor in keeping IDF casualties low.

However, the Combat Engineering Corps were most known for operating the armored IDF Caterpillar D9 bulldozers, which are cited by many Israelis and military experts as a key factor in keeping IDF casualties low and successfully fighting terrorism.

Yahalom bomb disposal experts and IDF Caterpillar D9 bulldozers cleared most of Hizbullah's IEDs.

According to journalist Seymour Hersh, the detection was the third joint Israeli-South African nuclear test in the Indian Ocean, and the Israelis had sent two IDF ships and " a contingent of Israeli military men and nuclear experts " for the test.

' According to The New Republic, ' an army psychiatrist warned that he wasn't fit for weapons or uniform, but his professional judgment was awaiting approval by a panel of medical experts that was not very swift in assembling ' and that a ' former chief of staff of the IDF ' had ' speculated that the killer's parents might have a chance to win damages in court for neglect by the army of the welfare of their son.

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.

Some examples of armoured civilian heavy equipment are the IDF Caterpillar D9, American D7 TPK, Canadian D6 armoured bulldozer, cranes, graders, excavators, and M35 2-1 / 2 ton cargo truck.

Some examples are the U. S. M113 APC, IDF Puma, Nagmachon, Husky, and U. S. M1132 ESV ( a Stryker variant ).

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 ).

These " edges " are connected by the Shebaa Farms ' northeastern limit 2. 5 km east of IDF military camp at Har Dov as defined by a 2007 UN report.

These are large unmanned mounds of earth and concrete on roads throughout the West Bank, and sometimes placed at the entrances of Palestinian villages by the IDF, thereby isolating those villages ' inhabitants by preventing traffic in or out.

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.

They are skilled in infantry combat, basic sabotage, landmine planting and demining, use of explosives, breaching and opening routes, trench warfare, and operating the IDF Puma combat engineering vehicle ( CEV ).

IDF ranks are the same in all services ( army, navy, air force, etc .).

IDF ranks are the same in all services ( army, navy, air force, etc .).

IDF ranks are the same in all services ( army, navy, air force, etc .).

The structure has separated East Jerusalem neighborhoods from the West Bank suburbs, all of which are under the jurisdiction of Israel and the IDF.

Although Sayeret Matkal has its own insignia, it is also one of the few units in the IDF whose soldiers are not allowed to wear it in public due to its classified nature.

Thus, whereas an IDF special forces operation needs to assemble elements from different specialist units, in Yamam, they are all permanently part of the same unit, living, training and operating together.

Yamam considers that it has several advantages over the IDF counter-terror units, first, because the men are more mature, most in their mid 30's and early 40's, and spend much longer in the unit than the equivalent military units, and, second, because the units contain a far broader range of ages and experience.

The IDF ensures that any improvements made to the DOI system ( including creation, maintenance, registration, resolution and policymaking of DOI names ) are available to any DOI registrant.

Registration agencies are also expected to actively promote the widespread adoption of the DOI system, to cooperate with the IDF in the development of the DOI system as a whole, and to provide services on behalf of their specific user community.

Registration agencies generally charge a fee to assign a new DOI name ; parts of these fees are used to support the IDF.

The IDF has three reservist paratrooper brigades at any given time, consisting of personnel who served their mandatory service in the brigade, and who are mostly in their twenties ( aside from officers ).

These are most likely the most highly trained reservist brigades in the IDF.

* October 1, 2004: A Palestinian is killed and six are arrested, by IDF forces, in a Palestinian police office near the Erez crossing.

* October 2, 2004: Ten Palestinians are killed by IDF forces in another day of fighting in the Gaza Strip.

* October 18: six Palestinian militants are killed in failed attacks IDF forces.

Religious Jews in Israel are obligated to serve mandatory service in the IDF, like all other adult Jewish males in Israeli society.

IDF maintains that this was done in order to prevent smuggling tunnels and other threats ( i. e. from snipers ) to its soldiers who are patrolling the border.

Ben-Gurion led Israel during the 1948 Arab – Israeli War, and united the various Jewish militias into the Israel Defense Forces ( IDF ).

In the late 1960s, Ze ' evi formed the elite Sayeret Kharuv, an anti-terror battalion, at the time when IDF Chief of Staff Haim Bar-Lev had begun to focus manpower and budget on armoured tank units, resulting in huge cutbacks in infantry forces.

* Sayeret Haruv-former IDF Central Command special forces unit.

* Sayeret Shaked-former IDF Southern Command special forces unit.

Sayeret Matkal (, General Staff Reconnaissance Unit ) is a special forces unit of the Israel Defense Forces ( IDF ), which is subordinated to the intelligence directorate Aman.

Sayeret Matkal would also evaluate new weapons and doctrines that could influence the entire IDF.

Although a top-secret unit, Sayeret Matkal had tremendous influence on the IDF.

During the 1990s, this selection practice was picked up by other IDF special forces ( Sayeret ).

While most of the orienteering training is done in pairs for safety reasons, as in every other unit in the IDF, Sayeret Matkal is one of the handful of IDF units which conducts long-range solo navigation exercises.

Sayeret Matkal operatives have gone on to achieve high positions in Israel's military and political echelons, and several have become IDF Generals and members of the Knesset.

* On March 3, 2000, the Yamam captured an armed group hidden in the Israeli – Arab town of Tayibe with the aid of Sayeret Duvdevan and an IDF Caterpillar D9 bulldozer.

He served for four years in the Israel Defense Forces as an officer in Sayeret Matkal, one of the more notable IDF special forces units.

Following the Yom Kippur War in 1973, where Ya ' alon served as a reservist, he rejoined the IDF and served in the Paratroopers Brigades and Sayeret Matkal.

Sayeret Yahalom is a classified unit and almost none of its special activities are exposed to the public. Public accounts of its activities usually just credit a " combat engineering force "; a term that can equally describe regular Engineering sappers, IDF Caterpillar D9 operators and infantry engineering companies.

Despite being one of the better sniper rifles available to IDF, only a small number are used, with the undercover unit Sayeret Duvdevan using most of them.