Statement signed by diverse group of national religious leaders, days after IDF says women will be able to serve in elite search and rescue unit, claims such moves will divide army

Israeli Air Force to let female recruits try out serving in Unit 669, amid High Court appeal seeking full gender integration across the military

One crew member evacuated with moderate injuries; cause of the crash not immediately known

Investigation announced after trainee for elite Maglan unit requires large rescue operation to extract him from hole, in latest such incident

In streamlining effort, search-and-rescue Unit 669, Shaldag commando unit, and outfit that builds airfields behind enemy lines to combine into Aerial Special Forces Wing

After hours of search efforts rescuers find body of 21-year-old Yerachmiel Yeshayahu, who plummeted off 30-meter ledge in Judean Desert