Tag: Negev Desert

The ibex is a kind of wild goat whose biblical Hebrew name is ya'el.

If you were planning on a moonlight hike in the Judean Desert or in the Negev – forget it. Don’t do it.

“When Ben Gurion said the Negev would be the test of the people in Israel, he could not imagine more success than you have created here."

By 2024, the IAF will have received a total of 50 F-35I fighter jets.

The prime minister / defense minister visited the F-35 squadron at Nevatim and held a security discussion with top Air Force brass.

Some of the area is located within the site of the Israel Nuclear Research Center facility, which required complex negotiations.

Each hike features nightly stays at a bed-and-breakfast and includes breakfast and lunch; paper maps, a GPS mobile phone app, an initial pre-trek briefing the evening before each trip, as well as 24/7 customer service support.

The body of a 20-year-old U.S. man was recovered from a ravine in the Eilat mountains on Sunday by the IDF 669 search and...

The IAF plane is called the ‘Samson’ (Shimshon in Hebrew); in the United States it is called the ‘Super Hercules.’

"The sale ... will leverage Israel's technological abilities and will increase defense exports."

The F-35s arrived as a 10-day military exercise is taking place in various locations across the country.

"The whole city became Venice. Everything is flooded, the playground, there are ten cars stuck in the puddles."

On Monday morning, Internal Security Minister Gilad Erdan announced that "terrorist kite launchers must become a target for preemptive assassinations."

Readers who need an infusion of faith are invited to hop a plane and head for the Western Wall.

The main focus of this year's Blue Flag aerial exercise has been on reconnaissance, air strikes and SEAD operations.

As soon as Israeli Jews began asking for rain in the Amidah prayer on Friday, it started raining.

Ali al-As'am (71), a Bedouin from Tel Sheva, was finally arrested Monday, and police suspect it was his unattended camels who walked into two fatal accidents and caused many other calamities.

The winemakers of Israel are unique because they're constantly "trading ideas back and forth. If one winery in Israel succeeds, we all succeed."

Sources inside the kibbutz estimate that the arson was a "price tag" punishment to the nearest Jewish enclave, as Bedouin revenge against law enforcement.

Regavim seeks to safeguard Israel's national lands, restore law and order to the Negev, and give the Bedouin community hope for a brighter tomorrow.

The comprehensive document is part of organization's new campaign to end Negev lawlessness, and offer solutions to bring the Bedouin community into the fold of Israeli society.

Internal Security Minister Gilad Erdan (Likud): 'A terrorist belonging to the Islamic movement sped at our forces aiming to kill as many police as he could even before the eviction had begun.'

A winter wonderland in the Golan Heights and rainy weather in the rest of Israel is a blessing that will help fill Lake Kinneret with much-needed water.

The F-35 has arrived in Israel.

The first two F-35 Adir stealth fighter jets arrive Monday fresh from final US-Israeli tweaks.

Fifty years after that catastrophic Arab failure, in 1977, the UN declared an International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, to be celebrated each year on November 29.

The first two F-35 stealth fighter jets are expected to arrive in Israel next month.

Winter rains have arrived on schedule in Israel, reaching from the north to the south, with high winds.

Gunshots were heard along the Israeli-Egyptian border, and an Israeli Arab teen has been killed.

The biggest challenge facing the new data storage system would be the requirement that the Infantry, Armored Forces, IAF, and Navy be able to share it effectively.