The Israel Defense Forces (shortened: IDF ) ( Hebrew : ??? ????? ?????? ) Tzva HaHagana LeYisrael   ( help · info ) ), " Army for the Defense of Israel " , known in Israel by the Hebrew acronym ??"?, ( 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 [ change | change source ]

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

References [ change | change source ]

Other websites [ change | change source ]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Israel Defense Forces .

• 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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