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Tironut (Hebrew: טירונות) is the Hebrew term for the recruit training of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). There are different levels of recruit training, and each corps or major unit has their own training program. Upon completing tironut, non-combat recruits are certified as Rifleman 02. [1] Combat recruits must complete Rifleman 03 ...
In addition to the three years obligated by the Israeli law, the service includes six years of standing army service in a wide variety of positions. The total program, including military service, is nine years. The first class had 25 cadets. Later, the class was increased to 50–60.
Military service is a tradition among some of the Druze population, with most opposition in Druze communities of the Golan Heights. 83 per cent of Druze boys serve in the army, according to the IDF's statistics. [60] According to the Israeli army in 2010, 369 Druze soldiers had been killed in combat operations since 1948. [61]
Recruits (tironim): Upon enlistment to military service in Israel, all soldiers begin a basic training course and undergo several weeks or months of 'integration' from citizens to soldiers. This course is called tironut (" recruit training ") and the soldier being trained on this course is called a tiron (or "recruit" ).
Reservists of the Israel Defense Forces in 2011. In reserve duty (or reserve service; Hebrew: שירות מילואים, Sherut Milu'im), Israeli residents who have completed military service are assigned to the Israel Defense Forces' military reserve force to provide reinforcements during emergencies (war, military operations or natural disasters), and as a matter of routine course (e.g. for ...
The Israeli military has enlisted the first batch of about 50 recruits into its new ultra-Orthodox brigade after a controversial decision to end their decades-long exemption from service.
Although military service in Israel is compulsory, exemptions can be secured on religious, physical, psychological, or legal grounds. There is also a growing, but still very rare, phenomenon of draft dodging, mainly due to conscience or political reasons (See Refusal to serve in the Israel Defense Forces). Exemptions have come under attack on ...
The IDF Military Colleges is a centralized educational unit of the Israeli Defence Forces under the command of the General Staff. Since 2019 its commander is aluf Itai Veruv. It was established in 1991 by merging Israeli military colleges into a single unit. [1] The first commander was Yossi Ben Hanan.