The Israel Defense Forces will officially begin trials and basic training of females for commando units. About 130 female military personnel will be assigned to the “Yahalom” commando unit for recruitment during 2023. The first recruitment cycle will take place this coming April and will be the initial trial of the program. Another round of recruitment will take place in November.
Read more: Wonder Women: IDF Opens Commando Units To Female Soldiers
Israel’s National Road Safety Authority held a meeting Tuesday with senior officials of the Authority, with the goal of formulating an emergency plan to be approved by the government, to solve the transportation failures in Judea and Samaria that endanger human life.
Read more: Coalition Planning Extensive Project To Fix Roads In Judea & Samaria
A huge conflict in Israel's internal political debate surrounds the Ultra-Orthodox public and their participation in Israel’s growth. Due to Israeli governments that have passed many laws protecting the “Haredi” public throughout the years, a situation has developed in which many Haredi men will spend their time studying in Yeshivas, while Israel’s welfare system along with their wives' employment financially supports their typically large families.
Read more: The Participation Of Haredim In Israel's Workforce Hits 25 Year High
As the year 2022 comes to an end, the Israel Defense Forces summarized all different recorded activities and published the data it has found. According to the summary, throughout 2022, approximately 9,000 terrorist attacks in the form of stone and Molotov cocktails took place, along with 285 shooting attacks, and 14 stabbing attacks. The numbers recorded by the IDF show a clear pattern in Palestinian activists' turn to terrorism as a means of resistance to Israeli sovereignty.
Read more: IDF Data Shows That 2022 Was A Year In Which Terror Activity Flourished
Palestinian activists from the area of the Hizma village, north of Jerusalem, arrived Sunday in an area near Route 60 with the goal of taking control of about 30 acres by planting fruit trees. The activists fenced off an area intended for their planting of about 1,000 trees, which partly belongs to the Israeli Perat Nature Reserve. This is a strategic area and the planting of the trees was meant to cut off the Israeli community of Adam from Jerusalem which is just a few short miles away.
Read more: Palestinians Continue To Plant Trees On Israeli Controlled Land
