Fallen soldiers

After 40 years: Gvar’am amphitheater reopens as memorial for Operation Protective Edge fallen

After decades abandoned, Gvar’am Forest Amphitheater reopens as an official memorial with 68 circles, oak trees, and a wall honoring the fallen of Operation Protective Edge.

The Gvar’am Forest Amphitheater
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich attends a committee meeting on September 14, 2025.

‘Shameful’: Smotrich faces uproar from bereaved families amid push for NIS 30b. defense budget rise

The removed posters of the fallen soldiers crumpled up and thrown on the ground near a garbage bin.

Hadera orders removal of fallen soldier posters, images show them torn, dumped on ground

Blasts heard in Doha, Qatar, September 9, 2025.

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Israeli citizen Elizabeth Tsurkov released, Qatari PM says nothing will stop it from mediating

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Smoke rises following Israel's strike on Hamas leaders in Doha, Qatar, September 9, 2025.

'A terrible day of bloodshed': Israeli officials mourn deaths of four Armored Corps soldiers

Staff-Sergeant Uri Lamed, Sergeant Gadi Cotal, aged 20, and Sergeant Amit Arye Regev from Modi'in-Maccabim-Reut, were killed in a tank explosion.

 An IDF tank amid counterterrorism operations in the Gaza Strip, May 16, 2025.

IDF Oct. 7 probe uncovers defense flaws, heroic victories in Yiftah Camp against Hamas

The IDF's probe into the events of October 7, 2023, highlighted both key triumphs and failures in the battles near Yiftah Camp, Erez regional command post, and Zikim, preventing Hamas infiltration.

 A VIEW of Zikim Beach

IDF soldier found lifeless, military police launch investigation

All findings will be forwarded to the military attorney's office for examination.

A memorial candle

A hero's legacy: Remembering fallen IDF soldier Shlomi Shrem's faith, love, sacrifice

DOMESTIC AFFAIRS: An Efrat mother remembers her fallen soldier son as a 'soul that came down to earth with a purpose.'

‘HE WAS always looking out for others – his brothers, his friends, even complete strangers.’ The Shrem family during happier times.

Eisenkot accuses Netanyahu of buying time in Gaza, says gov't 'unworthy' of fallen son Gal

Eisenkot said in an interview for KAN Reshet Bet that "the coalition's primal fear is losing its seats," and that "history will judge them for this."

 MK Gadi Eisenkot seen at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, June 30, 2025.

GFIDF: Partners of fallen soldiers must be recognized in the system

GFIDF sits down with The Jerusalem Post's Studio Manager, Shifra Jacobs

JPost sits down with...GFIDF

Two MKs urge Katz to recognize Roi Wasserstein, reservist who died by suicide, as fallen soldier

In separate letters, the MKs described Wasserstein's extensive combat service during he ongoing Israel-Hamas war and the severe psychological toll it took on him.

Roi Wasserstein, 24, an off-duty IDF reservist who committed suicide on July 30, 2025.

'Nothing prepares a mother for the knock at the door': Families mourn deaths of three soldiers

Capt. Amir Saad, 22, from Druze village Yanuh-Jat, Sgt. Inon Nuriel Vana, 20, from Kiryat Tivon, and M.-Sgt. Betzalel Yehoshua Mosbacher, 32, from Avnei Eitan, were killed in Gaza.

Israeli flags seen on Mount Herzl ahead of Remembrance Day. April 28, 2025.

Two IDF soldiers killed in armored vehicle blast in southern Gaza

Capt. Amir Saad and Sgt. Inon Nuriel Vana were killed, and another wounded, while in an armored personnel carrier (APC) due to the blast of an improvised explosive device.

Captain Amir Saad, 22 and Sergeant Inon Nuriel Vana, 20, who died in combat in southern Gaza, July 27, 2025.

M.-Sgt. Betzalel Yehoshua Mosbacher succumbs to wounds sustained in battle in southern Gaza

M.-Sgt. Mosbacher, 32, from Avnei Eitan, served as a combat engineer in the 749th Engineering Battalion, in the 828th Infantry Brigade. 

M.-Sgt. Betzalel Yehoshua Mosbacher succumbs to wounds sustained in battle in southern Gaza, JUly 26, 2025.