Records trace initial moments after attack, with soldier only identified as kidnapped hours after being dragged into Gaza, ...

IDF Archives release logs from the Southern Brigade's operations room, tracing the moments from when it was realized a ...

The new records rest mostly on reports that an IDF command center received in real time via communications devices with soldiers in the field, as well as handwritten reports and updates.

Shalit was 19 at the time of his capture. Dual citizen of France and Israel. While in captivity, Shalit was promoted three times, from corporal to ultimately sergeant major. Timeline July 2005 - ...

A soldier is missing from the tank,” a handwritten report appears at 6:40 a.m. on June 25, 2006, more than an hour after the ...