Israel Defense Forces

Emblem of the IDF

The Israel Defense Forces (shortened: IDF) (Hebrew: צָבָא הַהֲגָנָה לְיִשְׂרָאֵלcode: he is deprecated ) Tzva HaHagana LeYisrael (info • help)), "Army for the Defense of Israel", known in Israel by the Hebrew acronym צה"ל, (Tzahal), is the name of Israel's military forces. It includes the Israel Army, Israel Air Force and Israel Navy.

Since 1967, it has had a close relationship with the United States.^[1] The IDF is believed to have maintained Nuclear weapons, possibly possessing between 80 and 400 nuclear warheads.^[2]

IDF Corps

Flag of the IDF

The army has many corps:

Ground Arm

Infantry Corps
- 1st Golani Brigade
- 35th Paratroopers Brigade
- 84th Nahal Brigade
- 89th Commando Brigade
- 900th Kfir Brigade
- 933rd Givati Brigade
Armored corps
- 7th Sa'ar Armored Brigade
- 188th Barak Armored Brigade
- 401st Ikvot HaBarzel Armored Brigade
- 460th Sons of Light Armored Brigade
Artillery Corps
Combat Engineering Corps
Combat Intelligence Collection Corps

Israel Defense Forces Media

Badge of the Israeli Defense Forces 2022 version
IDF Kirya Compound, Tel Aviv
The structure of the Israel Defense Forces (click to enlarge)
Israeli officers of the Paratrooper Battalion 890 in 1955 with Moshe Dayan (standing, third from the left). Ariel Sharon is standing, second from the left and commando Meir Har Zion is standing furthest left. Note the wearing of four pocket tunics by paratroopers and khaki uniforms being worn as a sort of dress uniform.
Israeli soldiers coming back from the Second Lebanon war, armed with the M4 Carbine and the IMI Negev light machinegun
IDF uniform colors
IDF female Military Police wearing skirts with their white caps and belts
Female IDF corporal with the Spike missile launcher, wearing the golden-olive Madei Alef uniform

References

↑ Mahler, Gregory S. (1990). Israel After Begin. SUNY Press. p. 45. ISBN 978-0-7914-0367-9.
↑ There are a wide range of estimates as to the size of the Israeli nuclear arsenal. For a compiled list of estimates, see Avner Cohen, The Worst-Kept Secret: Israel's bargain with the Bomb (Columbia University Press, 2010), Table 1, page xxvii and page 82.

Other websites

Official website Archived 2020-09-27 at the Wayback Machine (in English)
Official website (in Hebrew)
BBC: Israel undercover
Israeli Weapons
Statistics about IDF ratio of thwarting suicide bombing attacks Archived 2004-03-31 at the Wayback Machine (link to DOC file)
Defense-Update Online Magazine
Haaretz report: "From 40 attacks per quarter to 5 attacks per quarter" :English Archived 2004-04-20 at the Wayback Machine - Hebrew Archived 2007-03-11 at the Wayback Machine - Graph 1: Thwarted attacks (yellow) vs successful attacks (red) - Graph 2: Suicide bombing within the "green line" per quarter .
War Online - military analysis and military history of the Middle East, especially IDF (in Russian and English)
The Israeli Military and Israel's Palestinian Policy: From Oslo to the Al Aqsa Intifada Archived 2006-08-14 at the Wayback Machine U.S. Institute of Peace, December 2002
Israel Military Forum Archived 2018-03-20 at the Wayback Machine

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[1] Mahler, Gregory S. (1990). Israel After Begin. SUNY Press. p. 45. ISBN 978-0-7914-0367-9.

[2] There are a wide range of estimates as to the size of the Israeli nuclear arsenal. For a compiled list of estimates, see Avner Cohen, The Worst-Kept Secret: Israel's bargain with the Bomb (Columbia University Press, 2010), Table 1, page xxvii and page 82.

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