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The Special Role of the IDF’s Chief of Staff (Ramatkal) in the Israeli Society

March 8, 2015November 26, 2018 GideonIDF, SPOTLIGHT

Gadi Eizenkot, the 21st IDF Ramatkal (Left) with the Israeli President Reuven Rivlin (center) and with Benny Gantz , the 20th IDF Ramatkal (Right) By Gideon  The IDF chief of staff (Ramatkal in Hebrew) is one of the most respected and most trusted…

IDF

Yosef Trumpeldor – The man and the legend

February 1, 2015February 25, 2018 GideonIDF Heroes

  Yosef Trumpeldor (1880-1920) lived a short life; forty years altogether. Yet, in those short years, he accomplished more than most people who live twice as long. He was an admired Jewish leader in his life and a symbol for…

IDF, Zionism

The great tank battles of the Yom Kippur War of 1973

January 3, 2015January 4, 2017 GideonWAR

On October 6, 1973, during Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, a Syrian and Egyptians armored force began a coordinated surprise assault along the Israeli-Syrian border in the Golan Heights in the north of Israel, and along…

IDF, Yom Kippur War

Gideon Pick

January 3, 2015October 13, 2018 GideonIDF Heroes

By Gideon Gideon Pick was my uncle. I never met him; he was killed in action before I was born. This article is in his honor. Gideon Pick (August 7, 1937 – October 10, 1956) was born in Jerusalem. As…

IDF, Israel

Entebbe Operation: Told by the soldiers who were there

January 3, 2015February 25, 2018 GideonIDF Heroes

Interviews with the IDF soldiers and the officers who made it happen.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lemwyO054OI    

IDF

Becoming a hero – Getting to know Emmanuel Moreno 

December 24, 2014February 25, 2018 GideonIDF Heroes

In the graduation ceremony of his team, the commander of Sayeret Matkal, Israel’s elite special forces unit, said on him that Israel didn’t have such a warrior since Bar Kokhba (Kosiba), the legendary leader of the Jewish revolt against the…

IDF, Israel

The secret war that never stops

December 19, 2014December 22, 2016 GideonMOSSAD

  Lebanese news sources report that the terrorist organization Hezbollah arrested one of its top people on charges that he was a Mossad spy. According to the media, the arrested spy was responsible for informing the Mossad about five planned…

IDF

Israel’s Army Singing Bands – A window into the Israeli Society

November 30, 2014December 31, 2016 GideonMUSIC

The road to understand Israel goes through its military singing bands. The history of Israel, its humor, its pain, its hope, and its evolution is all reflected in songs performed by  young Israeli performers at the beginning of their careers.…

IDF, Israeli Folklore

Israeli songs with special historical meaning

November 10, 2014November 26, 2015 GideonMUSIC

The two songs below captured in few words historical events in a way that elevated them to historical documents that will last for a long time. The first song is describing a tough battle in Jerusalem during the Six Day war. The other song became the…

IDF, Israeli music

Jerusalem – A City Under Siege

October 11, 2014October 12, 2018 GideonJERUSALEM HISTORY

By Gideon Jerusalem is not the largest city, nor the richest one, but it is the most desired city in the world, if judged by the number of times it was attacked by enemy forces. “Jerusalem has been destroyed twice, besieged…

IDF, Israeli-Palestinian, Jerusalem, Jewish history

September 5th 1972

September 28, 2014October 13, 2018 GideonMOSSAD

In the early morning hours of September 5, 1972, members of Black September broke into the Israeli quarters of the Olympic Village. After seizing the coaches in the first apartment and wounding wrestling coach Moshe Weinberg in the face, the…

IDF, Israeli-Palestinian, Olympic

Itzhak Hofi – An IDF General and Head of the Mossad

September 16, 2014November 24, 2018 GideonIDF Heroes

Itzhak Hofi, who died at the age of 87, lived and operated in some of Israel‘s most critical times; a developing young nation fighting for its survival. It seems that he was in many of the most important intersections that…

IDF, Yom Kippur War

The Battle on Mount Hermon in the Yom Kippur War of 1973 – The courage of the Golani soldiers under fire

September 4, 2014February 25, 2018 GideonIDF Heroes

  By Gideon Benny Masas, a Golani soldier from battalion 51, in an interview shortly after the second battle to recapture the Hermon was over: “They began shooting at us when we got there.  The dead and the injured teammates…

IDF, Yom Kippur War

My life as an Israeli student-soldier: Memories from the Technion

July 23, 2014March 11, 2018 GideonIDF

  In the picture: Second from left, as a Technion student in the First Lebanon War By Gideon One of my classmates at the Technion’s prep class, Moshe, was also a Golani reservist. He was also called for service during the First…

IDF, Israel, Israeli Society

Becoming a Golani Soldier

July 22, 2014December 31, 2016 GideonSPOTLIGHT

By Gideon As the news about the growing number of casualties among Israeli soldiers in Operation Protective Edge continued to arrive, the name “Golani” was mentioned disproportionately to the size of this infantry brigade. The unit had suffered painful casualties in…

IDF, Israeli-Palestinian

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