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unusual facts about Israeli Army



Al-Kabri incident

The al-Kabri incident refers to a military operation carried out by the Israeli army during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War in retaliation for the ambush of the Yehiam convoy.

Azzam al-Ahmad

In 1968,His father, Najeeb al-Ahmad was deported across the Jordan River by the Israeli Army after its occupation of the West Bank.

Karine A Affair

Lieutenant General Shaul Mofaz, chief of staff of the Israeli Army, announced in a Tel Aviv news conference on January 4 that the army had seized the ship while General Anthony Zinni was meeting with Yasser Arafat to promote negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.

Khiam

The town was the scene of a major confrontation between the Israeli Army and Hezbollah fighters during the 2006 Lebanon War, as well as the site of United Nations post, which was bombed by the Israeli Army during the 2006 conflict.

Maroun al-Ras

The village was the scene of a major confrontation between the Israeli Army and Hezbollah fighters during the 2006 Lebanon War.

Shaar HaNegev school bus attack

The Israeli Air Force and Israeli Navy launched missile attacks on targets in Gaza, while the Israeli Army attacked Palestinian targets with artillery and tank fire.


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Ben Dunkelman

After the war Dunkelman was offered, but refused, a commission in the peacetime Israeli Army; the Dunkelmans returned instead to Toronto where he went into the family business, which he expanded then sold to Dylex Limited in 1967.

Dorit Beinisch

In a 2005 ruling against the Israeli army’s use of “human shields” she concurred with then-President Aharon Barak that the practice of sending in a local Palestinian ahead of Israeli troops during arrest raids endangered his life, violated his free will and his human dignity.

Elinor Carucci

She was born in Jerusalem where she served in the Israeli Army for two years from 1989–1991, and received her BFA from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in 1995.

Ibrahim Ghannam

During the invasion of Lebanon in 1982, the Israeli army seized some of his paintings from one of the exhibits of Beirut.

International Law and the Gaza War

Professor of International Law William Schabas chair of the International Institute for Criminal Investigation law told Israeli Army Radio he thought "the fact that Netanyahu says he wants to change the laws of war is almost an admission that Israel violated them".

Jeremy Hardy

His experiences in Israel during the Israeli army incursions of 2002 became the subject of a feature documentary Jeremy Hardy vs. the Israeli Army (2003), directed by Leila Sansour.

Maccabiah bridge collapse

An investigation by Augustine Zycher for the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council reported that the Israeli army had employed Tamir Rowner, an experienced bridge construction engineer, to build previous bridges for the games.

Mukataa

UN Under-Secretary-General Terje Rød-Larsen, one of the architects of the Oslo Accords, said that the Israeli army's siege of Yasser Arafat amid the ruins of his bulldozed presidential compound could mean "the death" of hopes for a Palestinian state and a peace agreement.

MV Rachel Corrie

The ship was renamed in honor of Rachel Corrie, an American college student crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer while trying to prevent a house demolition in Gaza.

Ni'lin

In March 2010, the Israeli army designated Ni'lin, (together with nearby village Bilin), as closed military area each Friday.

Price tag policy

The burning of a mosque at the Bedouin town Tuba-Zangariyye on 3 October 2011 shocked Israelis, as many Bedouins, including those from this village, serve in the Israeli army.

Samer Tariq Issawi

On 15 April 2002, Samer was arrested by the Israeli army in Ramallah as part of Operation Defensive Shield during the Second Intifada.

Taghreed El-Khodary

She stopped reporting for the Times soon after the Electronic Intifada reported that Ethan Bronner, the Jerusalem bureau chief of the Times, has a son serving in the Israeli army.

The Friends of Natasha

The band was formed by Micha Shitrit, who was born in Yokneam, Israel to a Jewish Moroccan family, and Arkadi Duchin, who emigrated with his family from the former Soviet Union and returned to Yokneam to look for employment after serving in the Israeli army.

Timothy Workman

In September 2005, he issued an unprecedented arrest warrant for a retired Israeli Army officer, Major General Doron Almog, based on statements of a Palestinian group about actions in the Gaza Strip.