Paratroopers Brigade

Haredi enlistment to combat units jumps 30% as over 250 men join IDF in recent draft cycle

Current assessments indicate that some of the tracks are expected to meet the recruitment targets set by the head of the IDF Personnel Directorate, Maj.-Gen. Dado Bar Kalifa.

Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) men at the Tel Hashomer IDF base, August 30, 2026.
Retired Brig.-Gen. Tzuri Sagi.

Renowned IDF paratrooper, architect of Kurdish relations, Tzuri Sagi dies aged 92

Israeli soldiers visit at a viewpoint overlooking southern Lebanon, August 5, 2026.

IDF expands probe into abnormally strong explosion that killed two reservists in Lebanon

IDF soldiers participate in the Arrowhead agility competition on July 8, 2026.

IDF holds redesigned Arrowhead agility competition for combat soldiers, special units


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.

An image of the front page of The Jerusalem Post on October 27, 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.

IDF responds to terror attack in West Bank, September 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. 

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

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.

 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.

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

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

 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.