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[Sniffit]

Originally Posted by Sniffit
How does it work with Nahal these days? Are they still recruited from the garinim (is that the right word?) and do they still do agricultural work, if yes then how many months?

Do you mean Heyachzut, Mahaz and shalat?

Heyachzut is like a Nahal created "outpost kibbutz" is it not?

The other terms are new to me. Could you be so kind and explain them?

You'll have to excuse my lack of knowlege but I havn't read anything about nahal that dated from this side of the 1980ies.

[Givati575]

Mike Hartman

you can listen to him here (in an interview with G. Gordon Liddy)
http://www.jpostradio.com/Archive/20...-1-hartman.wma

he's a pretty cool guy, he came to talk to all the chayalim bodedim last week

[ExtraT]

An IDF joke, slightly off topic:

What's the difference between the infantry brigades?
- Golani first attack then think
- Paratroopers first think then attack
- Givati think that they attack
- And NAHAL has a great band!

[tanks_alot]

A few more pics....









Former IDF chief of staff Ayalon decending from a Merkava after conducting an exercise in it.

[MPNFL]

question: are Israeli's who are Muslim allowed to be in the IDF?

[Sniffit]

question: are Israeli's who are Muslim allowed to be in the IDF?

Yes they are.

[tanks_alot]

Yes, conscription in Israel is mandatory for Jews and Male Druze, all other groups living in Israel can volunteer.

[IsraDani]

An IDF joke, slightly off topic:

What's the difference between the infantry brigades?
- Golani first attack then think
- Paratroopers first think then attack
- Givati think that they attack
- And NAHAL has a great band!

Too bad I'm from nahal

[Givati575]

Too bad I'm from nahal

me too ....

[tanks_alot]

Some more pics.....

[ExtraT]

Ok, here is some real PR for Givati, a few weeks ago 2 terrorists tried to sneak to the border from Gaza, a Givati force from Shaked battalion spoted them and opend fire which ended up setting off their explosives.

An intersting note about that video: there are about 3 seconds of video missing at the exact moment of explosion. I wonder why?

[tanks_alot]

An intersting note about that video: there are about 3 seconds of video missing at the exact moment of explosion. I wonder why?

My guess is that it's in order to spare us a bit of a graphic content, if black = heat than you can see two figures in cover before the explosion, after the 3 seconds skip the left figure is still in place, probably dead from the explosion or the soldiers fire, the right figure however, is mostly a few meters to the left.....

could be another reason though, thats what i thought when i saw the video.

[tanks_alot]

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And a nice slideshow....

[Binger]

10x alot tanks_alot, great pix! gotta dig through my own albums sometime soon...


orev givaty in rafah during counter-tunnel ops. the black outfit is goretex suits donated by an american family.


airforce SF encountering another tunnel in rafah

And a nice slideshow....

hell yeah - next time around, we'll break their skulls in half!

[tanks_alot]

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