Photo Credit: IDF Spokesperson's Office
These are new recruits of the Herev Battalion who are completing their initiation “beret trek.”
Battalion 299, aka the “minorities unit,” aka the “Druze battalion,” aka the Herve-Sword Battalion, is an IDF infantry battalion which is made up almost entirely of Druze soldiers. There are many members of the same families serving in this unit, often brothers and first cousins share the same tent together. Needless to say, it’s a close-knit battalion, known by its motto: “First arrow at the Lebanon border.”
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