"These are Christian soldiers, men and women, in the Israeli Defense Forces. They fill all the important positions in our incredible military, and they do incredible work," Netanyahu said.

Military says it views incident with 'great severity,' that it will be handled 'through the chain of command' and that IDF will help restore statue; image has circulated widely online The post IDF ...

A viral post showed an Israeli soldier damaging a Jesus statue in a Christian village in Lebanon, igniting outrage. IDF ...

The photo, Kan News reported, had been uploaded by IDF soldiers to social media and taken in the village of Debel sometime ...

Israeli troops are under investigation for destroying solar panels with military diggers in the same Christian village where they deliberately smashed a statue of Jesus. Video foo ...

An additional soldier was sentenced to 14 days in military prison for filming the incident.

Books can — and should — be written about how and why there are Lebanese Christians living in Israel at all, much less serving in the IDF, and doing so as officers. Simply, during the Lebanese Civil ...

April 19 (UPI) --The Israel Defense Forces confirmed Sunday that a photo showing an Israeli solider smashing the head of a statue of Jesus in southern Lebanon is authentic. The photo, originally ...

Soldier seen in picture given 3 weeks, photographer given 2 weeks; army says it 'respects freedom of religion' after several ...