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	Nahal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Since the Six Day War (1967), most Nahal settlements were established in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, the Golan Heights and the Sinai Peninsula.
		Nahal Haredi - Netzah Yehuda Battalion - this is a special infantry unit for Haredi Jews.
		Gariney Nahal (Bazelet) (גרעיני נח"ל) - in the history, they combined their military service with the establishment of new agricultural settlements (called Nahal settlments) and the development of older settlements and towns (settlers).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nahal_Brigade (393 words)

	Nahal -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Nahal is a Hebrew acronym for Noar Halutzi Lohem (Fighting Pioneer Youth) and refers to a scheme for (Jewish republic in southwestern Asia at eastern end of Mediterranean; formerly part of Palestine) Israeli youth that combines active military service with "civilian" service, the latter usually in a new agricultural settlement.
		The Nahal includes also an (additional info and facts about Israel Defence Forces) Israel Defence Forces infantry brigade, and lately even a special unit called Karakal (קרקל) open for both men and women (the first unit in the IDF to do so).
		Nahal settlements were established in frontier regions where Jewish population was sparse, such as the (A desert in southern Israel) Negev and the (An area of northern Israel; formerly the northern part of Palestine and the ancient kingdom of Israel; the scene of Jesus's ministry) Galilee.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/n/na/nahal.htm (442 words)

	Israel - NAHAL Brigade
		The aim of the Nahal Gar'in was to provide its soldiers with extensive military capability as well as the basic tools for life on a new kibbutz or moshav.
		As of 1997, the regular Nahal Infantry Brigade came under the command of the Central Command, while the Nahal Command, which continued to serve as a special cadre for combining military and nation-building civilian service was integrated into the framework of the Education and Youth Corps.
		The Nahal Brigade was transferred to the Central Command in a process that was begun in 1996 and was completed in February 1997.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/israel/nahal_brigade.htm (1423 words)

	Nahal
		The Nahal includes also an Israel Defence Forces infantry brigade, and latly even a special unit called Karakal קרקל opened for both man and weman worriors (the first unit in the IDF to do that).
		Nahal Haredi - this is a special infantry unit for Ultra orthodox Jews.
		The unit is open only to them and the IDF makes sure they will be able to keep all the Jewish commandments and laws (mitzvot).
	www.teachtime.com /en/wikipedia/n/na/nahal.html (322 words)

	The I.D.F. : Israel Today - Israel My Beloved (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The brigade was formed in 1948 with the primary purpose of defending the northern regions of the country.
		The brigade is unique in the world's fighting forces in that it combines military combat duty with civilian service in kibbutzim and moshavim (collective and semi-collective agricultural settlements).
		The brigade was formed in the true spirit of Zionism, training young pioneers to fight and defend their newborn nation while simultaneously teaching them to settle and work the land.
	www.israelmybeloved.com /today/idf/idf_branches.htm (1065 words)

	World Affairs Board - View Single Post - My Pics. See if they show.
		The Golani brigade took part along with the Seventh armored infantry brigade, and the Carmeli brigade in Operation Dekel (in the Galilee).
		The Golani brigade also took part in Operation Assaf to take control of the western Negev, and also participated in Operation Horev in which the Egyptians were repelled from Israeli territory.
		As part of the organizational changes towards the 21st Century, the Golani Brigade, which was hitherto directly subordinate to GOC Northern Command, was now placed under the command of a formation in the Northern Command.
	www.worldaffairsboard.com /showpost.php?p=3984&postcount=15 (645 words)

	Nahal - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Nahal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		* Regular infantry - training and service in the Nahal brigade is like in any other infantry brigade soldier in the IDF.
		* Nahal Haredi - Netzah Yehuda Battalion - this is a special infantry unit for Haredi Jews.
		* Gariney Nahal (גרעיני נח"ל) - in the history, they combined their military service with the establishment of new agricultural settlements (called Nahal settlments) and the development of older settlements and towns (settlers).
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Nahal.html (413 words)

	TIME.com: TIME Magazine -- Inside the War on Hamas
		Dan, 27, the burly commander of the reconnaissance unit of the Israeli army's Nahal Brigade, knew he had to strike fast.
		At the spearhead of that war are the soldiers charged with hunting suicide bombers and their paymasters in the West Bank and Gaza Strip — Israelis like the men from the Nahal Brigade's reconnaissance unit, one of the army's most active terrorism-fighting groups.
		Colonel Knafo Harel, commander of the Samaria Brigade, which controls the Nablus region, says his forces have eliminated all the major Hamas leaders in the area.
	www.mafhoum.com /press6/161P8.htm (1541 words)

	Moshe Ya'alon
		Lt.-Gen. Moshe Ya'alon was born in 1950 in Kiryat Haim.
		He was drafted into the IDF in 1968 and served in the Nahal Brigade Paratroop Regiment.
		He held several command positions in the IDF Paratroop Brigade and commanded its reconnaissance unit during the 1978 Litani operation.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/yaalon.html (286 words)

	Mahal2000 - Frequently Asked Questions - How, Where and When?
		If you serve in the Nahal Infantry Brigade you are usually not in training about 9 months of active IDF service (or 12 1/2 months if non-combat profile).
		One of the units of the IDF is the Nahal Infantry Brigade where most Mahal2000 volunteers with combat profile serve.
		Generally, males with high health profiles will serve in combat units such as the Nahal Infantry Brigade and those with low health profiles in non-combat jobs that will be determined by the IDF depending on the army's needs and your personal abilities and ambitions.
	www.mahal2000.com /about/faq.htm (8456 words)

	מחסום WATCH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		We went by foot toward the checkpoint that was reinforced with a large number of troops –“Nahal” brigade # 50, the Etzion brigade, and border police from Beit Horon and Jerusalem.
		The checkpoint was under the command of the Etzion brigade and the ‘Nahal” unit that now is permanently stationed at the checkpoint.
		In response to our contention that the DCO is not able to meet the needs of the population, he said that the Etzion district commander serves some 80,000 people, and would be able to cope if they did not come in huge waves.
	www.machsomwatch.org /docs/monthlyReports/reportsLinks/November/Nov21Bethlehem.asp (723 words)

	Moshe Biol (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Lieutenant General Moshe Ya'alon was born in 1950 in Kiryat Haim, a suburb of Haifa.
		He was drafted in 1968, serving in the airborne unit of the paramilitary Nahal brigade.
		His next appointments were as commander of the Paratroops Brigade (1990), commander of the West Bank Division (1992) and commander of an armored division (1993).
	www.sar-el.org /MosheBio.html (360 words)

	Ephraim Sneh Press Release
		Sneh began his military service in the Nahal Infantry Brigade.
		"Nahal" is the Hebrew acronym for "Noar Halutzi Lohem"- Fighting Pioneer Youth - a military cadre unique to Israel.
		It is a framework which combines military service in a combat unit with civilian service in a newly founded kibbutz or moshav (collective and semicollective settlements).
	www.wws.princeton.edu /events/pressreleases/sneh.html (333 words)

	The JPost - Casualties of War
		Ron, a member of the Nahal Brigade's elite reconnaissance unit, is to be buried in the moshav's cemetery on Wednesday afternoon.
		Members of the Nahal unit originally came under sniper fire on Monday night as they were patrolling on foot near a bend in the road that links Kiryat Arba with the Machpela Cave in Hebron.
		Reinforcements from the Nahal Brigade, which has been in charge of security in the area for the past few weeks, were sent to the scene and a fierce exchange of fire ensued.
	info.jpost.com /C002/Supplements/CasualtiesOfWar/2003_03_10.html (998 words)

	Hebron Diaries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He got a big kick out of it." (testimony of D., a fighter in the Nahal brigade who served in Hebron and was demobilized three months ago.
		And there was also the morning when, in his role as sarsap (acronym for company deputy sergeant-major) in Battalion 50 of the Nahal, he brought food to the position set up by the IDF inside a Palestinian home overlooking the Al-Sheikh neighborhood.
		When Shaul enlisted in Nahal, he was following in the footsteps of his older brother, who later became the only member of the family to give up religion.
	discuss.agonist.org /yabbse/index.php?board=2;action=display;threadid=20215 (4813 words)

	World Affairs Board - My Pics. See if they show.
		I was Gdud 50 which is Nahal Mutznah but reported to Hativat Hatzanhanim and not Hativat Hanahal.
		Up until the 90s you'd serve in one of the Nahal gdudim for basic and Ba"tash (Lebanon, Golan or the territories) for alternating rounds of line duty and then training.
		Nahal is the name of an Israeli Infantry Brigade.
	www.worldaffairsboard.com /printthread.php?t=271 (1239 words)

	Atlanta Jewish Times -- Cover Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Most of the soldiers in her son’s brigade are teen-agers, says Rabinerzon.
		And with candy and a flurry of well-wishing letters from strangers in America, the soldiers have an opportunity to be, "happy, like kids," she said.
		Nahal is the Hebrew acronym for Noar Halutzi Lohem — Fighting Pioneer Youth.
	server1.jrmportal.com /archives/2002/030102cs.htm (2063 words)

	Breaking The Silence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It is a movement created by released soldiers, all of whom served in the Nahal Brigade.
		They are asking, as they put it, to place a mirror before Israeli society and to reveal the price, particularly the moral price, that soldiers who perform extended service in the territories must pay.
		l A Nahal Brigade officer reported on an incident outside the Muqata in Ramallah in which a colonel opened fire with live ammunition on a violent Palestinian demonstration when open-fire regulations - written by that same colonel - directed soldiers to use only riot control equipment.
	www.breakingthesilence.org.il /press_en.asp?id=128 (587 words)

	Israel - Best Battalion Award for 2001 goes to Druze Volunteers
		These young men spend four months with the IDF "Nahal" infantry brigade, a period of time after which they are considered to be "fighters".
		Captain Halabi Rafaat emphasizes that: "The Druze are educated from a young age that they are an integral part of Israeli society, and thus, they must contribute to the IDF, like every other Israeli citizen and provide service to their country".
		The Brigade is divided into four fighter Brigades and one commanding Brigade.
	www.kokhavivpublications.com /2003/israel/01/0301281504.html (353 words)

	israel defence forces (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		During the Second Intifada, the IDF developed special tactics to keep casulties low without hurting civilians.
		Such tactics are deemed necessary because Palestinian organizations (Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades) hide among the civilian population in order to deter the IDF from attacking them.
		However, the terror of 2002 and the "Passover Massacre" forced the IDF to enter cities and refugees camps and engage in urban warfare.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Israel_Defence_Forces.html (2165 words)

	St.-Sgt. Ari Yehoshua Weiss (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Two soldiers from the engineering battalion of the Nahal Brigade were hit.
		Sergeant Ari Weiss was hit in the head and died shortly thereafter.
		He enlisted in the Nahal Brigade just over two years ago.
	www.newyork.israel.org /mfa/go.asp?MFAH0mf90 (391 words)

	israelinsider: security: The Jenin refugee camp - the real story is told (Part 2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A Psalm in Jenin introduces Doron, a principal character in the 2002 events, and portrays his formative experiences as a young officer who, with his Nahal Brigade comrades, was confronted with the hellish task of patrolling a refugee camp in Gaza during the violence of the late 1980s.
		In 1989, Doron was assigned to serve as a squad leader in a unique Nahal company of soldiers with an artistic bent.
		A wire fence was all that separated the tiny Nahal outpost from the camp's 50,000 hostile inhabitants.
	web.israelinsider.com /bin/en.jsp?enPage=ArticlePage&enDisplay=view&enDispWhat=object&enDispWho=Article^l2216&enZone=Security&enVersion=0& (2047 words)

	Sha!: Weekend Miscellaneous Pop Culture Entry #44 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		She first gained prominence during the mid 1950s, performing in the Nahal Brigade's entertainment troupe.
		The Nahal Brigade's was always considered the best, and for years served as factory for Israel's most popular singers and actors.
		Following their discharge from the army in 1957, Hendel, Topol, Zohar, and other members of the brigade formed the entertainment group Batzal Yarok ("Green Onion"), which basically performed the same material they had been but in civilian clothing.
	www.shaister.com /archives/000747.html (1387 words)

	Palestinian Schools Which Encouraged Terror Closed By IDF
		Last night, in a joint operation carried out by IDF ordnance units and companies from the 'Nahal' infantry brigade in Hebron, the entrances of three Palestinian colleges that openly encouraged terrorism were sealed closed.
		Commander of the Nahal company that took part in last nights operation elaborated on the aims of the operation: "We do not in any manner wish to harm the innocent Palestinian population, however, we have a duty to prevent education that incites murder of Israelis.
		When the soldiers returned to their base at 6:00am, the brigade commander told his troops: "Suicide bombings and terrorist attacks are a direct result of all the incitement material you gathered tonight.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/823324/posts (1845 words)

	DSS Hubris: Israel Update
		The car bomb that a Nahal Brigade company commander found was an exact replica of the car bomb that killed four Israeli citezens as reported on this blog yesterday.
		A Nahal Brigade company commander spotted the red Volkswagon with wires protruding from it and alerted sappers to the site.
		According to the IDF Spokesman, the car, which was in the final stages of preparation for an attack, was discovered with a long cable protruding from it.
	dsshubris.blogspot.com /2005/02/israel-update.html (294 words)

	An exhibition organized by 3 Israeli soldiers show abuse against Palestinians By Amineh Ishtay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		An exhibition that was organized by three Israeli soldiers from Nahal
		Brigade is creating a political controversy due to the hard to digest photographs exhibited in Tel Aviv.
		In addition to that, the Nahal troops reported that they recorded testimonies of abuse against Palestinians and unnecessary damage to Palestinian property.
	www.jerusalemites.org /editorial/86.htm (426 words)

	Sha!: Weekend Miscellaneous Pop Culture Entry #45 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Specifically, with the Nahal Brigade's entertainment unit, the best and most successful of the army's performing troupes.
		The "Class of '69" Nahal troupe, one of the finest in the unit's history, was the first to start incorporating rock instruments.
		Out went the rock opera, in came skits reminiscent of the Nahal brigade shows and some songs which weren't so aggressively weird.
	www.shaister.com /archives/000752.html (2415 words)

	TIME Europe Magazine: Standoff In Nablus -- Oct. 28, 2002
		On patrol with Colonel Noam Tibon of the Nahal Brigade.
		Tibon's Nahal Brigade has the toughest assignment in the West Bank, guarding this city where 80% of the intifadeh's suicide bombings have been planned.
		If it wasn't for the guns and the bombs of those groups, he points out, there'd be no curfew and the 20,000 men who used to work in Israel could return to employment.
	www.time.com /time/europe/magazine/article/0,13005,901021028-366281,00.html (1083 words)

	Haaretz - Israel News - Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The rules of the game change when it comes to Nahal Oz, Sderot and, of course, a "strategic target" such as the Sycamore Ranch of neighboring Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
		At the same time, the IDF is preparing for a large-scale operation in Hebron, the leader in suicide bombings in the past few months.
		The Nahal Brigade has been assigned to hit at the Hamas and Islamic Jihad infrastructures in the region.
	newsblaster.cs.columbia.edu /archives/2003-09-13-09-45-13/web/NBproxy.cgi?sentence=798 (1092 words)

	Nahal Haredi - Netzah Yehuda Battalion
		"In the Nahal Haredi I know that my son is surrounded by good influences and fortified by moral and spiritual support.
		Our son is a sniper in his unit and that certainly gives rise to concern, but we are now totally at ease when it comes to the spiritual aspects of his life."
		"The Nahal haredi serves the needs of religious young men who are no longer engaged in full time Torah studies and the needs of Israel in supplying manpower and a much needed source of unity to the Israeli army and society.
	www.nahalharedi.org /nahal_haredi_testimonials.php (611 words)

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