Paratroopers Brigade

On This Day: Israel, Jordan sign 1994 peace treaty, ending forty-six years of war

Following Egypt in 1979, Jordan was the second Arab country in the Middle East to sign a peace treaty with Israel.

|ByMIRIAM SELA-EITAM
An image of the front page of The Jerusalem Post on October 27, 2025.
IDF responds to terror attack in West Bank, September 28, 2025.

St.-Sgt. Inbar Avraham Kav killed in IDF operation at Jit junction laid to rest

Kav, a soldier in the 890th Paratroopers Battalion, fell during an operation at Jit Junction in the northern West Bank.

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IDF soldiers pay respects to loved ones who fell in battle at Mount Herzl Cemetery in Jerusalem, April 28, 2025

IDF soldier suffering from self-inflicted gunshot succumbs to his wounds

The soldier was named as Corporal Dan Mandel Philipson, 18, from Norway. He was a combat soldier in training in the IDF's Paratroopers Brigade. 

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Israeli soldiers from the 646 Battalion of the Paratroopers Brigade operating in Al-Bureij camp in the central Gaza, during an Israeli military operation in the Gaza Strip, January 2, 2023.

Paratroopers chief gets censure, but no major penalty regarding complaints

Brig.-Gen. Gal Shuhami probed the complaints and found that all of them were either untrue or within the normal spectrum of errors.

|ByYONAH JEREMY BOB

External officer to investigate allegations against Paratroopers cmdr., IDF says

The allegations include unethical behavior and giving commands that put IDF soldiers in danger.

DECEMBER 19, 2024ByAMIR BOHBOT
Israeli soldiers from the 646 Battalion of the Paratroopers Brigade operating in Al-Bureij camp in the central Gaza, during an Israeli military operation in the Gaza Strip, January 2, 2023.