“At my age, before the war, you were supposed to stop flying,” he told Ynet.
IDF
DAWN, a US-based NGO, “has intensified its legal attacks against Israeli officials,” says NGO Monitor’s Gerald Steinberg.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calls the measure against the IDF’s haredi battalion Netzah Yehuda “the height of absurdity and a moral low.”
Iran’s attempt to knock out an F-35 base and Hezbollah’s reported attack on an Iron Dome battery reiterate the need to diversify Israeli firepower.
The IDF could have decided not to recruit girls for combat roles beyond the allowed figures, but the IDF chose to embrace the high motivation.
The target, believed to have been a drone, was intercepted over the Red Sea by a C-Dome battery aboard an Israeli Sa’ar 6-class corvette.
Hamas supporters came looking for Shirli at her workplace and home.
There are currently around 150,000 Haredim (ultra-Orthodox) of military age who are not being conscripted.
According to the Israel Democracy Institute, Knesset trust ratings presented the sharpest decline, falling from 24% in June to 19% in December.
Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi: “We failed to protect civilians at the start of the war—our most important mission.”