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The film's director, himself an IDF veteran who was stationed in Lebanon during the first Lebanon war, [1] uses the stone walls of Beaufort castle as a symbol of the futility and endlessness of war. The film was shot during the spring of 2006 at Nimrod Fortress , a similar mountaintop fort in the Golan Heights .
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Israel Defense Forces צבא ההגנה לישראל Emblem Standard Founded 26 May 1948 ; 76 years ago (1948-05-26) Service branches Israeli Ground Forces Israeli Air Force Israeli Navy Website idf.il Leadership Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Defense Minister Israel Katz Chief of the ...
During the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, the military equipment in the IDF was very diverse and inconsistent. This was due to the severe limitation in obtaining war materiel (the British Mandate and the Arab embargo). During the 1950s, the IDF began the process of standardization, relying primarily on French military equipment.
The Merkava (Hebrew: מֶרְכָּבָה, [mɛʁkaˈva] ⓘ, "chariot") [5] is a series of main battle tanks used by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and the backbone of the IDF's Armored Corps. Current iterations of this tank are considered broadly equivalent to the capabilities of the M1 Abrams , Leopard 2 and the Challenger 2 .
The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) has three branches: the Israeli Ground Forces, the Israeli Air Force, and the Israeli Navy. In 2021, the Israeli military spend was $24.34bn (£20bn).
Bearing Witness to the October 7th Massacre [2] (also unofficially called סרט הזוועות, lit. ' the atrocity film ' or ' the film of horrors ' in Hebrew) is a compilation by the IDF Spokesperson's Unit of raw footage from the 2023 Hamas attack on Israel.
Foxtrot (Hebrew: פוֹקְסטְרוֹט) is a 2017 internationally co-produced drama film written and directed by Samuel Maoz.It stars Lior Ashkenazi and Sarah Adler as a couple who are informed that their son, an IDF soldier, was killed in action.
During Operation Defensive Shield in April 2002, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) invaded a Palestinian refugee camp in Jenin. The Israeli military refused to allow journalists and human rights organizations into the camp for "safety reasons" during the fighting, leading to a rapid cycle of rumors that a massacre had occurred. Jenin remained ...