https://www.conservapedia.com/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=Apollo 2026-09-22T17:54:55Z User contributions MediaWiki 1.35.14 https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Israel_Defense_Forces&diff=211757 2007-06-28T21:37:30Z

<p>Apollo: this is simply not true, there is a predominantly druze Battalion but druze are not obligated to serve in it</p> <hr /> <div>[[Image:IDFlogo.jpg|right|thumb|IDF Logo]]<br /> <br /> The '''Israel Defense Forces''' (IDF) ([[Hebrew]]: צבא ההגנה לישראל) is the name of the [[Israel|Israeli]] military, including the Israeli Army, Air Force and Sea Corps.<br /> <br /> Their general mission is to &quot;To defend the existence, territorial integrity and sovereignty of the state of Israel. To protect the inhabitants of Israel and to combat all forms of terrorism which threaten the daily life.&quot; The quality of the IDF has become a legend as a result of many specific missions such as the 1976 [[Entebbe rescue]], the 1973 [[Operation Spring of Youth]] and the 1967 [[Six-Day War]], in which Israel fought off for the second time the armies of all four of its immediate neighbors -- [[Egypt]], [[Jordan]], [[Syria]], and [[Lebanon]] -- as well as that of [[Iraq]] and token commitments from other Arab states. Even leaving aside its [[nuclear weapons]], the exact number and [[yield]] of which are unknown, Israel is definitely the world's best armed small country (its air force would give it an edge were it somehow to fight [[North Korea]]) and is orders of magnitude more capable in a military sense than any of its neighbors.<br /> <br /> All citizens of Israel, male and female, except for the [[ultra-Orthodox]] and [[arab|arabs]] are obligated to serve a minimum of two years on [[active duty]] in the IDF upon graduating from [[high school]] and a number of years thereafter as [[reservists]], meaning that Israel probably has the world's most thorough system of [[conscription]]. Career soldiers have gone on to lead the country more frequently than in the [[United States]], particularly [[Yitzhak Rabin]], [[Ehud Barak]] and [[Ariel Sharon]].<br /> <br /> ==Links==<br /> [http://www1.idf.il/DOVER/site/homepage.asp?clr=1&amp;sl=EN&amp;id=-8888&amp;force=1 Official Site in English]<br /> <br /> [http://www1.idf.il/DOVER/site/ Official Site in Hebrew]<br /> <br /> <br /> [[category:Israel]]</div>

Apollo