The Jaffa Military Court on Tuesday sentenced Hebron shooter Sgt. Elor Azaria to 1.5 years in jail for his manslaughter conviction for killing Palestinian attacker Abdel Fatah al-Sharif on March 24, 2015, as he lay wounded in a Hebron street.
A soldier was arrested early Saturday morning on suspicion of firing his army rifle at a group of teenage girls because one of them refused to kiss him. On Friday night the soldier, who was on leave from his unit, met the girls at a neighborhood park in Be’er Sheva. He and one of the…
DetailsAn IDF officer in reserves who fought in Operation Protective Edge in the summer of 2014 was detained upon landing in the UK a few weeks ago due to a complaint made against him that he was involved in war crimes.
Just hours after Israeli Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot paid a visit to Israel’s northern border with Syria, IDF forces in the Golan Heights have been placed on high alert over the possibility of a Hezbollah attack in revenge for the assassination of senior terrorist commander Samir Kuntar last week.
Israeli military police has opened an investigation into an army general suspected of receiving money in exchange for helping a female soldier get a more desirable posting, the army confirmed Friday.
The ballistic missile fired by Syria last week posed a direct threat to Israel and its citizens, a senior IDF officer in the Air Defense Command said on Monday.
An army battalion commander who sexually harassed two of his subordinates was convicted in a plea bargain Thursday of conduct unbecoming an officer.
A rabbi whose military career has been dogged by controversy is poised to become the Israel Defense Forces’ new chief rabbi.
The IDF legal division on Thursday filed an indictment against Brig. Gen. Ofer Buchris for three counts of rape and 13 counts of other sex crimes between July 2012 and January 2013, bringing the saga to a decisive point which has captivated the country for 5 months.
The attorney for the main complainant in the rape allegations against Israel Defense Forces Brig. Gen. Ofek Buchris told Tuesday night that chief military prosecutor Col. Sharon Zagagi-Pinhas had informed her by telephone that a had found Burchris to be lying and that her client was telling the truth.
