Military service

IDF observers forced to endure harassment, poor conditions - report

Lack of sleep, according to the report, is the biggest problem that the observers, who are predominantly women, currently face.

|ByAVI ASHKENAZI , JERUSALEM POST STAFF
A soldier from the IDF observers unit; illustrative.
Defense Minister Israel Katz and IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir. March 25, 2025.

Israel Katz publishes IDF chief's letter warning of manpower shortage amid haredi draft debate

Zamir sent the letter after attacks on the government for failing to push for haredim to draft into the IDF in large numbers.

|ByYONAH JEREMY BOB, MIRIAM SELA-EITAM
Israeli musician Eyal Zakai reflects on Gaza service, song written dedicated to fallen soldier.

Israeli musician Eyal Zakai reflects on Gaza service, song written dedicated to fallen soldier

During one deployment, Zakai learned that a close childhood friend had been killed in combat roughly a kilometer away from his unit.

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HAREDIM BLOCK a road to protest the arrest of yeshiva students who failed to comply with an army recruitment order, near Bnei Brak, on Monday.

IDF should conscript Arabs to serve instead of haredi draft dodgers - opinion

The demographic potential of Muslim Arab men aged 18 stands at over 12,500 young men per year – a figure equivalent to the enlistment potential of haredi men.

|ByNIMROD KOREN

Assuta Ashdod Public Hospital to Economics Ministry : Give hospital security 'preferred' status

"In recent years, we have all witnessed a significant increase in violence in hospitals towards the medical staff.”

OCTOBER 30, 2023ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
‘I refuse to believe that people come to a clinic to start a fistfight. The problem is that we are understaffed, that the facilities are insufficient and that patients often have to wait far too long.’

Gallant: Service in IDF must remain a supreme value

IDF intelligence chief: Following intel. 'commandments' will avoid another surprise war.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
RESERVE SOLDIERS, veterans, and activists protest against the intention of some reservists to refuse to serve, as part of the protest against the planned judicial overhaul, in Tel Aviv earlier this year.